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Incorporating MacUser 



Features 



Cover Story 




60 

Desktop Invaders 

BY HENRY BORTMAN Apple’s nCW 
fleet of robust, affordable PowerBook 
G3’s threatens to render desktop 
Macs obsolete. 







INTERNET ESSENTIALS 

72 

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The new guard of PowerBook G3's 
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Print 



101 Get Prepress- Ready PDFs 
from QuarkXPress 

BY STEPHEN BEALE Tcach your 
old PDFs new tricks, and limber 
them up for prepress. 




Print 

The Power of ColorSync 
Color Matching 

BY BRUCE FRASER Can the 
ColorSync profiler cure your 
not-quite-right blues? 



Web 

109 Make FileMaker Work 
the Web 

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Reaffirming the Mac's graceful 
nature, page 164. 



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News 

25 Jobs Wows Publishers with 
New Hardware 

Apple parades new offerings for 
graphics professionals at Seybold 
New York. 

26 Prepress Vendors Flock 
to Acrobat 

Adobe’s Portable Document For- 
mat gains momentum for print 
production. 

26 New Printers Boost 
Photo Quality 

Epson unveils additions to its pop- 
ular Stylus Color 800 and Stylus 
Photo lines. 

27 New Software Heats Up 
Web Animation 

Adobe, Extensis, and Macro- 
media square off with new Web 
animation tools. 

28 Nikon Cameras Challenge 
Olympus 

Nikon’s new CoolPix 900 offers 
more pixels for the buck. 



Opinion 

1 5 Letters 
21 The Vision Thing 

BY ANDREW GORE Can a 
consumer-level Mac rejuvenate 
Apple’s market share? 

164 The Desktop Critic 

BY DAVID POGUE Taste- 
testing Windows confirms the 
elegant flavor of a Mac. 

10 How to Contact Macworld 




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Reviews 

30 Freehand 8 

Illustration software 

32 f f Microsoft Office 98 
Productivity suite 

34 SoftWindows 95 5.0; 

Virtual pc 2.0 

Windows emulators compared 

35 DayStar Millennium G3/307 
Pro-level system 

36 fff f MYOB Accounting Plus 7.5 
Accounting suite 

38 MacDrive 98 2.0 

Cross-platform file utility 

38 f f M Cinema 4D XL 

3-D animation and modeling software 

39 InterMapper 2.0 
Network-management tool 

40 f f $V j Eudora Pro 4.0 
Internet mail client 



Secrets 



95 The Heartbreak of TviT 
Attachments 

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40 MMvj Storage Wizard 2.0 
Storage-management utility 

49 f Va PageStream 3.3 
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Web authoring software 

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Web illustration software 

50 III! DenebaCAD1.5 
Architectural CAD software 



52 III! GearBox1.5 
Internet connection tool 



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Photograph hy Mark Johann 




54 IllVa Artlantis Render 3.0.1 
3-D CAD rendering tool 

56 II SpeedShare 1.02 
File-transfer utility 

58 II Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain 
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On Microsoft s Repentance 

T here has been a lot of excite- 
ment about the new Microsoft Office 
98, but I don’t know how many people are 
aware of the “small print” (“Microsoft 
Repents,” March 1998). The system 
requirements for Office 98 are a 120MHz 
or better PowerPC CPU. A 120MHz 
PowerPC chip for a word processor? I 
think diat is ridiculous. 

The life cycle of a computer in a 
design firm is such that the newer 
machines are for graphics use and the 
older ones are left for administrative 
work. Now it seems that the better 
machines will be needed for a word pro- 
cessor and the slower ones will be left 
for Adobe Photoshop. 

Cesar B u e n r o s t r o - .M o r e n o 
Mexico City, Mexico 

I ENJOYED YOUR ARTICLE ON OFFICE 
98, but I must point out a mistake 
about Outlook Express. Author David 
Pogue stated that Outlook Express does 
not let users create folders. This is not 
true; I currently have five folders and 
multiple subfolders. 

Joel Donaldson 
Killeen, Texas 

Sure enough, Microsoft added user foldei's in 
the release version. And while V?n making 
corrections: an editing slipup timied ^most 
HTML e~7fiail is junk mair into "'most e-mail 
is junk jnail.'' Pm really not a sociopath! 
— David Pogue 

Quark UnImpress 4.0 

B ased on your review of quark- 
XPress 4.0 and your recommendation 
that it was a “no-brainer upgrade for cur- 
rent users,” I confidently plunked down 



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S400-plus and placed my order (Reviews, 
March 1998). I’ve been a happy XPress 
camper for nearly ten years and was look- 
ing foi^'ard to improvements to an 
already terrific product. 

While I understand that your re\iew- 
ers can’t spend months working with a new 
version of a program, 1 think it would be 
wise to withhold your mouse ratings until 
some of us down here in the trenches have 
sent you on-the-job feedback. QuarkXPress 
4.0 is riddled with bugs. Speed problems. 
Printing problems. Display problems. Font 
problems. The Quark Tech Forum is piled 
high with complaints from users who 
depend on XPress for their livelihood. And 
their complaints share a common theme: 
Why was this product released with so 
many glitches? 

If your reviewer had put XPress 4.0 
through even a few hours of normal use 
(printing separations, importing EPS 
files, running it on different systems) he 
would no doubt have discovered XPress 
4.0’s weaknesses. And tlien he would have 



done the responsible thing: written a 
review that alerted readers to the poten- 
tial hazards of upgrading to what is, in 
reality, a beta version of QuarkXPress. 

Mike Prentiss 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

A fter installing QuarkXPress 
4.0 with some diffic*ulty, 1 discovered 
that my XTensions didn’t work — includ- 
ing those that came as part of the 3.32 
package. My subsequent conversation 
with tech support was almost laughable — 
I was told to get in touch with the 
XTensions developers to obtain updates. 

There’s no argument that Quark- 
XPress 3.3 is the de facto standard for 
desktop publishing. Version 4.0 is quite 
another matter; it can hardly be considered 
stable or reliable enough to use for pro- 
duction. My requirements for a \iable piece 
of software are that it install easily and per- 
form as it has been advertised to; XPress 4.0 
sadly fails to meet those requirements. 

Chuck McKinney 
via Macworld Online 

From various postings we've seen, it's clear 
that service bureaus and QuarkXPress 4.0 
end uset's are having issues such as those you 
describe. We recommend that you go to 
www.qiiark.com to download the 4.02rl 
updater, which should solve some problems. 
As for XTensions, each new QuarkXPress 
revision breaks XTensions for previous ver- 
sions — but of the 50-odd pre-4.0 XTensions I 
tested on the Mac, the vast majority worked 
fine. — Galen Gniman 

Higher-Ed Mac Flak 

A s A LONGTIME YALE FACULTY 
member, I found David Pogue’s 
assessment of the Apple situation at Yale 
continues 



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• The price of KemingtotTs Orbit 
Trackball is $70, not $39 (''The Mac's 
Brightest Stars, ” March / 998). 

• In "The Modern Showdown" (April 
1998), the photo on page 89 was 
taken by Giawpiero Benvennti and 
the photo on page 90 was taken by 
Suzanne Roady. 

both accurate and prescient (The Desk- 
top Critic, March 1998). I had a long dis- 
cussion with Mr. Updegrove (director 
of information technology services 
[ITS]) last summer about his don’t-buy- 
a-Mac letter to incoming freshmen. He 
stated his main motivation for writing 
it was fear that incoming students would 
buy Apple computers from ITS’s store 
and then blame Yale if they had to buy 
another computer before graduating. 
The only reason 1 could see why they 
might have to buy another computer is 
if ITS itself made it impossible for 
undergraduates to access the Yale net- 
work from a Mac. 

My initial reaction to ITS’s pro- 
nouncement was horror. Then I realized 
we have not gotten much support from 
ITS anyway, so its withdrawal of support 
means little to my mostly Mac lab. We 
have even gotten opposition at times, 
and were forced to set up our own net- 
work and maintain our own Web site. 
.Anyone facing a similar scenario should 
keep in mind that you’re lucky to have a 
Mac, as they are easier to set up and 
maintain yourself — and Mac trouble- 
shooting courses can teach you to man- 
age on your own. 

John Fi.ory, Ph.D. 

Department of Genetics, Vale University 
New Haven, Connecticut 



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D avid poguk’s statf.mf.nt that 
Brown University is phasing out 
Macintoshes is not correct. The infor- 
mation Brown provided to students 
entering in fall 1997 neither recom- 
mended PCs nor discouraged Macs. The 
university continues to support both 
Macs and PCs. 

We have seen a shift toward PC 
ownership among incoming students. 
Each year we distribute packets of infor- 
mation to incoming students who want 
to connect their computers to the cam- 
pus network. In September 1997, 



approximately 75 percent of the packets 
distributed were for computers running 
the Windows OS and 25 percent were 
for those running the Mac OS — leading 
us to estimate that 75 percent of first- 
year students who own computers have 
PC]s and 25 percent have Macintoshes. 
Market forces — not university dic- 
tates — will determine Apple’s presence 
on campuses. 

M A R Y M C C I. U R K 
Director of Academic & User Services, 
Computer Information Services, Brown University 
Providence, Rhode Island 

OS Update Uncertainty 

I N YOUR ARTICLF ON MAC OS 8.1 
and HFS+ (“Mac OS Update Frees 
Your Hard Drive,” News, March 1998), 
you state that people with Mac clones 
who want to upgrade their hard drives to 
HFS+ need two external hard drives 
(one to back up data and one to use as a 
start-up disk when installing OS 8.1) 
unless they purchase AJsoft’s PlusMaker. 
Why can’t we simply use a single high- 
capacity hard drive to install 8.1 and 
back up data, and also use that disk as a 
start-up disk from which to convert the 
original hard disk? Alternatively, why 
not install OS 8.1 on a Zip cartridge and 
boot from that? 

T o M N V O E N* T 
Camlrridge, Massachusetts 

Either scenario would work, although Zip 
cartridges have the Ihnitation of relatively 
small capacity. But before you try either 
method, don 't forget to back up your old 
System Folder in case something goes 
wrong. — Henry Bortman 

I N YOUR AR'I’ICLF ABOUT UPDAT- 
ing to Mac OS 8.1, you left out an 
important warning to your readers. 
Before updating, they must check with 
the developers of utilities they use. For 
example, neither Symantec’s Norton 
Utilities nor Alsoft’s DiskExpress Pro 
are HFS+-compatible. Symantec and 
Alsoft may take months to update their 
programs, and both say not to use their 
programs on a drive formatted with 
Hh'S+. Evidently, these developers had 
to wait until Apple released a final ver- 
sion of HFS+ before updating these 
applications. There may be other 
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E uphoria is not a word 
often associated with 
Apple these days. A 
constant stream of petty 
dramas combined with 
uncertainty about the 
Mac’s future have con- 
spired to seriously erode 
confidence in Apple and 
its products. To be a Mac user is usually 
to be dismissed as a fanatic, as if with a 
single word from our charismatic cult 
leader in Cupertino it’ll be Jonestown 
cocktails all around. 

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distribution strategies are enhancing mar- 
gins; the company seems to be on the road 
to sustained profitability; the new G3 
Power Macs are selling well. 

But ply that same analyst with a few 
drinks, and you’ll likely hear a different 
explanation: consumer Macs. 

An All-Consuming Obsession 

Despite every^ effort by what is arguably 
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tory — the computer industry — there are 
still a lot of people in the world who can 
afford computers and don’t have them. 

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From Creator to Consumer 

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advantages of a computer without actually 
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ith Apple interim 
CEO Steve Jobs 
set to address 
attendees at the 
Seybold New York 
electronic publishing confer- 
ence in March, many Apple- 
watchers expected big news, 
such as the announcement of 
a permanent CEO. His 
keynote turned out to be 
much less dramatic, but he 
still managed to impress a 
large audience of publishing 
professionals — one of the last 
bastions of Macintosh loyalty 
— ^wath demonstrations of fast 
new hardware, an LCD mon- 
itor, and an updated version 
of Apple’s ColorSync color- 
management software. He 
also announced that Apple 
will make ColorSync available 
for Alicrosoft Windows. 

Toasting Intel In keeping 
with Apple’s latest advertising 
campaign, which touts the G3 
CPU’s performance against 
that of Intel’s Pentium II, 
Jobs unveiled the 300MHz 
Power Macintosh G3 (see 
2 “The Build-to-Order Dilem- 

0 ma,” May 1998) and prompt- 

1 ly set it against a 333MITz 
I Pentium Il-based Windows 



NT workstation from Com- 
paq. The Power Mac ap- 
peared to be more than twice 
as fast as the Compaq work- 
station when performing a 
series of Adobe Photoshop 
operations. Then Jobs pre- 
viewed a 400MHz G3 CPU 
that uses copper-wiring tech- 
nology developed by IBM; it 
was about three times as fast 
as the 333MHz Pentium II. 

The first Macs to include 



the new CPUs should appear 
by early 1999, Jobs said, 
adding that even faster hard- 
ware is on the way. 

Flat AAac Jobs used the 
ke\mote to unveil Apple’s first 
nonportable LCD monitor, 
the 15.1 -inch Apple Suidio 
Display. The monitor sup- 
ports resolutions of up to 
1,024 by 768 pixels and offers 
all the advantages of LCDs: a 
small footprint, low power 



consumption, no flicker, and 
minimal magnetic emissions. 
It is scheduled to ship in May, 
for S 1,999. This would have 
been considered aggressive 
pricing a few months ago, but 
given recently plummeting 
prices for LCD monitors, 
Apple’s display should be in 
the middle of the pack. 

New ColorSync Jobs also 
announced the availability of 
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ColorSync 2.5, an updated 
version of Apple’s color-man- 
agement technology, and said 
that Apple plans to make 
ColorSync available for Win- 
dows by the beginning of 1 999. 

Joining Jobs on stage, 
Adobe Systems’ CEO John 
Wamock said that Adobe will 
support ColorSync in future 
Mac and Windows versions of 
Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, 
Illustrator, and PageMaker; 
the Mac versions of Illustrator 
and PageMaker already sup- 
port ColorSjTic. 

Apple has long resisted 
making its core soft\vare tech- 
nologies available for V\1n- 
dows, fearing that such moves 
will negate the Mac’s remain- 
ing advantages over the \Ym- 
tel platform. But Linotype, 
which developed the color- 
matching software that un- 
derlies ColorSync, has li- 
censed the same technology 
to Microsoft for inclusion in 
Wndows. Apple thus gains 
little by continuing to restrict 
ColorSync to the Mac. With a 
Windows version of Color- 
Sync, Apple makes it more 
likely that developers will 
support the color-manage- 
ment software in their cross- 
platform products. 

However, the move is 
fraught with irony. In his key- 
note, Jobs pointed out that 
color management belongs 
not in applications but in tlie 
OS. But Microsoft — now sup- 
posedly on a friendlier basis 
with Apple — has its own color- 
management plans for Win- 
dow's. Like a Trojan horse, 
ColorSync w'ill likely infiltrate 
Wndows through applica- 
tions such as Photoshop and 
PageMaker; a Windows user 
installing a new^ Adobe graph- 
ics package w ill get ColorSync 
as part of die bargain. 

Meanwhile, Macintosh 
users can download Color- 
Sync 2.5 free from Apple’s 
Web site (http://colorsync 
.apple.com). New^ features 
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P repress-software devel- 
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mat (PDF') gains favor among 
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flight Pro 2.0 and Preflight 
Designer 2.0 can use links to 
Adobe Acrobat Distiller (part 
of Adobe Acrobat 3.0) to cre- 
ate print- ready PDF files. 

Preflight Pro 2.0, priced 
at S400, is aimed largely at 
ser\dce bureaus and their 
high-volume customers, wdiile 
the $130 Preflight Designer 
2.0 is targeted at graphic 
designers. Botli are scheduled 
to ship in June. 

Enfocus (303/393-7282, 
ww^w.en focus .com) intro- 
duced its own PDF-based 
preflighting softw^are, En- 
Focus CheckUp. The $195 
package works as plug-in for 
Acrobat Exchange or Acrobat 
Reader. In addition to in- 
specting PDF files destined 
for print, it can also ensure 
that files are optimized for 
online posting. 

EnFocus PitStop is a $295 
Acrobat E.xchange plug-in 
that lets you edit text and 
graphics in PDF files. You can 
create new’ graphic objects; 
cut and paste from other doc- 
uments; or modify die color, 
shape, position, and rotation 
of existing objects. 

Intense Software an- 
nounced PDF Embedder, a 
S3 50 plug-in for Adobe Acro- 
bat Exchange (also part of 
Acrobat 3.0) that lets you 
embed the graphics, fonts, 
and page layouts used to cre- 
ate a PDF file wdthin the file 
itself. If your ser\dce bureau 
has trouble printing the PDF 
file, it can use the vendor’s 




New Printers Boost Photo Quality 



EPSON AMERICA (310/782-0770, WWW.EPSON.COM), 
which set the printer market on its ear in 1997 with a series 
of popular Stylus Pro ink-jet printers, is at it again, with two 
new photo printers and two additions to the Stylus Color 
800 line. The $300 Stylus Photo 700 offers features com- 
parable to those of the $500 Stylus Photo, which it replaces. 
Like its predecessor, it uses a six-color printing process, but 
it also boosts the original 720-by-720-dpi resolution to 
1 ,440 by 720 dpi. Maximum size on banner paper Is 8.5 by 
44 Inches. The $500 Stylus Photo EX features a wider, 1 1 .7- 
inch Imaging area. 

The Stylus Color 850, priced at $400, features faster 
print speeds, smaller dots, and better-looking photos than 
the Stylus Color 800. The $550 Stylus Color 850N adds a 
built-in Ethernet print server.— macworld staff 



26 June 1 998 MACWORLD 






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free UnEmbed plug-in to 
extract the components in 
their native formats and fix 
the problem. 

Lantana’s Crackerjack 
Pilot is a $995 batch-process- 
ing program for Crackerjack, 
an Acrobat Exchange plug-in 
that lets you control color 
separations, screening, and 
other prepress settings in a 
PDF file. Crackerjack Pilot 
lets you create a variety of hot 
folders in which PDF files are 
automatically processed by 
Crackerjack. Lantana, which 
plans to ship the add-on in the 
second quarter, will also offer 
a $1,395 bundle that includes 
Crackerjack. 

Acrobat Imposes Several 
vendors, including DK&A 
Prepress (619/488-81 18, 
ww-w.dka.com). Electronics 
for Imaging (EFI; 650/286- 
8600, www.efi.com), and 
Quite Software (www'.quite 
.com), demonstrated PDF- 
based software for creating 
electronic impositions (forms 
in which pages are arranged 
for printing). 

Quite ’s $325 Quite Im- 
posing and $629 Quite Impos- 
ing Plus are Acrobat 
Exchange plug-ins 
that let you arrange 
pages from one or 
more PDF files into 
relatively simple plate 
layouts. The Plus 
version adds step and 
repeat, bleed defini- 
tion, page extraction, 
and other functions 
to the basic package. 

EFFs new Doc- 
Builder Pro software, 
to be sold with its 
Fiery print servers, uses the 
PDF format to assemble pages 
for output on digital copiers. 

In December, DK&A 
announced a PDF import 
option for In Position 2.1, a 
$3,000 stand-alone imposi- 
tion program that also 
imports QuarkXPress, Page- 
Maker, EPS, TIFF, PICT, 
and PostScript files. 



I graphics | 

Mac Software 
Abounds at 
Seybold Show 

MAC-ONLY PLUG-INS 
AMONG HIGHLIGHTS 
by Macworld Staff 



A pple’s market share 
may be hovering 
below 5 percent, but 
graphics-software 
developers still see 
gold among Mac users. At the 
recent Seybold New York 
electronic-publishing confer- 
ence, a host of graphics ven- 
dors introduced new software 
for the Macintosh — some of it 
available only for the Mac. 

New Fractals Many of tlie 
new Mac-only products are 
Adobe Photoshop plug-ins. 
Altamira Group (818/556- 
6099, w^ww. altamira -group 
.com) announced an en- 
hanced $300 version of Gen- 



uine Fractals, a Photoshop 
plug-in that compresses 
medium-resolution images — 
those scanned at 15MB to 
25iVIB— into 3MB-to-5MB 
Fractal Image Format files 
that can then be decom- 
pressed to sizes much larger 
than the original. 

Genuine Fractals Pro 
supports CMYK and other 



color spaces along with the 
original program’s RGB. It’s 
also faster and adds a lossless- 
compression option. The 
company will continue to offer 
the original Genuine Fractals 
package for $160. 

Silvertone is a $350 
Photoshop plug-in from 
Intense Software (604/244- 
3501, www.intensesoftw^are 
.com) that lets you create 
color separations with metal- 
lic inks. It joins the company’s 
Pow^erTone, a $250 Photo- 
shop plug-in for generating 
duotones. 

Monaco Systems (978/ 
749-9944, w'w'w.monacosys 
.com) introduced a Mac-only 
color-management tool, 
MonacoProof, that lets you 
create industrj^-standard de- 
vice profiles and Photoshop 
color-lookup tables for digital 
cameras, scanners, and moni- 
tors. The $1,195 package also 
includes MonacoPreview, a 
Photoshop plug-in for proof- 
ing images on-screen. 

Corel Tries Again Al- 
though there were plenty of 
Mac-only products at Sey- 
bold, most graphics-software 
vendors have committed to a 
cross-platform strategy. 

Among them, Corel (613/ 
728-0826, www.corel.com) 
previewed CorelDraw 8, a 
new version of its graphics- 
software suite. CorelDraw 6, 
the first release of the soft- 
ware for the Mac, drew less- 
than -stellar reviews from 
graphics professionals. The 
new version includes such 
features as object transparen- 
cy; a customizable interface; 
and support for drag and 
drop, AppleScript, and 
Photoshop plug-ins. Corel 
has also replaced Artisan, a 
weak image-editing program 
included in CorelDraw^ 6, 
with a new' Mac version of 
Photo-Paint, w'hich offers 
features more on a par with 
those in Adobe Photoshop. 

Liberated Software Lino- 
type CPS (516/434-2793, 



www.linocolor.com) an- 
nounced that it will offer 
\^suaLab, its scanning soft- 
w'are, as a stand-alone $495 
package called VisuaLab Elite 

5.0. The sofnvare, w'hich 
automatically optimizes 
scanned images, currently 
supports Umax flatbed scan- 
ners, but Linotype says that it 
is developing drivers for other 
scanners as well. Linot)y)e 
w'ill also offer a version of the 
software, VisuaLab DCam 

5.1, for digital cameras. 
Newtek (210/370-8000, 

w'\vw. newtek.com), developer 
of LightWave 3D, for profes- 
sional 3-D animators, has 
rolled many of that program’s 
modeling and rendering fea- 
tures into Inspire, a $495 3-D 
package aimed at graphic 
designers and multimedia 
producers. 

I multimedia | 

New Software 
Heats Up Web 
Animation 

VENDORS SQUARE OFF 
WITH NEW PROGRAMS 

by Stephen Beale 



G iven the wide use of 
animation on the 
Web, it may be sur- 
prising that a share- 
ware program — GIF- 
Builder — remains the most 
popular Web animation pro- 
gram for many designers. 
Sensing an opportunity, three 
graphics-software titans — 
Adobe Systems (408/536- 
6000, www.adobe.com), Ex- 
tensis (503/274-2020, www' 
.extensis.com), and Macro- 
media (415/252-2000, www 
.macromedia .com) — have 
introduced packages that 
make it easier to create GIF 
animations for the Web. 




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Adobe’s ImageReady and 
Macromedia’s FireWorks, 
each priced at $300, are 
designed to provide complete 
environments for creating still 
and animated GIF images. 

Both programs let you 
remove colors while using 
previews to show the impact 
on image quality. Adobe’s 
software, scheduled to ship in 
the second quarter, borrows 
many features from Photo- 
shop. For example, it uses lay- 
ers to store animated objects; 
you can move an object and 
then invoke a “tweening” 
function to create intermedi- 
ate frames. 

Macromedia’s software in- 
cludes vector- and bitmapped- 
graphics tools along witli a text 
window that offers kerning, 
scaling, and leading controls. 
FireWorks is scheduled to ship 
this summer; a public beta is 
currently available on Macro- 
media’s Web site. 



Extensis’s $100 Photo- 
Animator lets you create 
timeline animations that can 
be exported as GIF files or 
Photoshop layers. You can 
also import Photoshop layers 
for conversion into anima- 
tions. The software should be 
available by the time you read 
this; Extensis is offering it for 
$70 until June 30. 

Open Vectors Mong with 
FireWorks, Macromedia has 
also announced Flash 3, a new 
version of its vector-anima- 
tion sofmare that supports 
object transparency, sound 
synchronization, and shape 
morphing between frames. 
The upgrade also lets you 
embed the Shockwave Flash 
Player inside Flash anima- 
tions destined for CD-ROMs 
or diskettes; double-clicking 
on the Flash animation 
launches the player. The soft- 
ware, scheduled to ship in 
May, will sell for $300 by itself 



or for $500 as part of the 
Design in Motion suite, which 
also includes FreeHand 8. 

Macromedia has long 
been seeking to establish 
Flash as a standard for vector 
animation on the Web. Now 
facing competition from 
Apple’s QuickTime 3.0, which 
includes a new vector-anima- 
tion track, Macromedia has 
decided to make the Flash file 
specification available to other 
software developers. At pre- 
sent, only Macromedia Direc- 
tor and Macromedia Flash can 
produce Flash animations; 
now other vendors will be able 
to incorporate Flash export 
capabilities into their products. 
Likely candidates include Lari 
Software’s (919/968-0701, www 
.larisoftware.com) Electrifier 
Pro and Pace Works’ (650/ 
578-6765, www.paceworks 
.com) ObjectDancer, which 
each support the QuickTime 
3.0 vector track. 



“JOBS WOWS PUBLISHERS 
WITH NEW HARDWARE" 

continued from page 26 

include AppleScript support, 
monitor-calibration software, 
and a plug-in architecture 
that will let you access other 
vendors’ calibration software 
through the Mac OS Moni- 
tors & Sound control panel. 
Apple also provides Color- 
Sync Photoshop plug-ins and 
sample AppleScript scripts for 
automating common color- 
management tasks. 

Adobe’s Warnock had an 
announcement of his own, 
informing the Seybold audi- 
ence that the next version of 
Illustrator would support 
AppleScript. An Adobe repre- 
sentative demonstrated an 
Illustrator plug-in written in 
AppleScript that generates 
updated city labels and tem- 
peratures on a weather map. 

Uptick Jobs’s keynote 
came at a heady time for 
Apple. As of mid-March, most 
Wall Street analysts were pre- 
dicting that Apple would show 
a profit for its second fiscal 
quarter — achieving its first 
back-to-back profitable quar- 
ters in years. The Wall Street 
Journal, which in past months 
has taken a dim view of 
Apple’s prospects, described it 
in March as the best-perform- 
ing computer stock of the 
year. However, Apple still 
lacks a permanent CEO and 
much of its improved financial 
performance is due to cost 
cutting rather than rising Mac 
sales. In late March, Apple 
board member Edgar 
Woolard told the Dow Jones 
news service that the board 
would like to see Jobs contin- 
ue as CEO, with or without 
biteiiin in his job title. 

Jobs promised that Apple 
would have a product for the 
consumer market by this fall. 
Apple is reportedly develop- o 
ing an under-$ 1,000 Mac sys- 9 
tern, code-named Artemis, § 
that includes a G3 CPU. I 



Nikon Cameras Challenge Olympus 



WHEN YOU'RE KING OF THE HILL. EVERY- 
one's trying to take you down. As Olympus 
(516/844-5000, www.olympus.com) strug- 
gles to meet demand for its $1,300, 1,280- 
by-960-pixel-resolutlon D-600L digital cam- 
era — Macworld's hardware product of the 
year (see "The Mac's Brightest Stars," March 
1998) — Nikon (516/547-4200, www.nikon 
.com) has introduced the CoolPlx 900, which 
offers the same megapixel resolution and 3x 
zoom capability, for an estimated street price 
of $900. Scheduled to ship in May, the cam- 
era stores images in JPEG format on Com- 
pactFlash cards; you can choose from three 
levels of compression. 

Nikon has also introduced the CoolPix 
600, a $600 digital camera that offers a max- 
imum 1,024-by-768-pixel resolution. The 
price includes a docking station with video- 
out and serial ports plus a battery recharger. 

Olympus isn't sitting still. Its new 



D-340L camera offers 1,280-by-960-pixel 
resolution, but no optical-zoom capability, for 
$800. Similar in design to the D-320L, it 
stores images on a 4MB SmartMedia solid- 




state floppy-disk card included in the pack- 
age. Olympus also has reduced the prices of 
its other digital cameras: the D-220L, from 
$500 to $400; the D-320L, from $700 to 
$600; and the D-500L, from $900 to $800. 
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FreeHand 8 

TOP DRAWING PROGRAM 




HEAPS ON THE FEATURES, 

STILL NEEDS FACELIFT 

T he decade-long struggle 
between Macromedia FreeHand 
and Adobe Illustrator for Post- 
Script drawing dominance has 
turned into something of a trounc- 
ing in recent years. If this were a boxing 
match, we would see FreeHand throwing 
punch after furious punch as Illustrator 
dodged, cringed, and ducked. 

And just when you thought the fight 
couldn’t get any bloodier, FreeHand 8 
strides in witli a new arsenal of features — 
translucent fills, lens options, freehand 
reshaping tools, effects filters, customiz- 
able shoncuts, support for exporting vec- 
tor-based Web animations, and more. 

But if this is such an obvious mis- 
match, why haven’t the judges called off 
the fight? Why does Illustrator remain 
the more popular program on the Mac, 
and why is it picking up steam under 
Windows? Although Illustrator has fewer 
moves than FreeHand, it executes them 
with greater style. After the recent 
streamlining of Illustrator in version 7 
(see Reviews, August 1997), FreeHand’s 
interface feels bloated and chaotic. While 
FreeHand 8 has made strides in usability 
and ease of use, it still plays host to a col- 
lection of inconsistent palettes, oddball 
tools, and redundant commands. 

Make no mistake: FreeHand 8 is 
faster, more fle.xible, and more powerful 



REAL PRODUCTS 
REAL RATINGS 



than Illustrator. And now that Macro- 
media has redesigned the packaging 
(eliminating Pat, the androgynous, pen- 
wielding mascot, in the process), many 
artists are likely to take the product more 
seriously. Even so, Illustrator remains a 
contender, if for no other reason than that 
its relatively few capabilities — which just 
so happen to be the ones artists use on a 
daily basis — are easier to find. 

Going Where PostScript Doesn’t Go 

Unlike Illustrator, which saves documents 
as pure PostScript files, FreeHand saves 
in a native, non-PostScript format. As a 
result. Illustrator is limited to functions 
the PostScript page-description language 



supports; in contrast, FreeHand can pret- 
ty much do as it pleases. 

A case in point is FreeHand 8’s Lens. 
Introduced four years ago by CorelDraw 5 
for Windows, a Lens effect uses one object 
to modify the objects behind it. For exam- 
ple, you might fill an object with a translu- 
cent color that mixes with the colors of the 
objects behind it. This is child’s play in a 
pi.xel editor such as Adobe Photoshop, but 
because PostScript can’t rasterize translu- 
cent vectors, it’s a challenge for drawing 
programs. FreeHand’s solution is to ren- 
der objects in the background when saving 
and printing EPS files. | 

Translucency is only one of several ° 
Lens effects in FreeHand. You can also I 



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magnify a collection of objects, invert 
them, and apply a monochromatic color 
scheme. You can even change the focal 
point so that the source of the effect is 
somewhere otlier than direcdy behind the 
lens (see “One Drawing Controls Them 
AH”). The result is a series of dynamic 
effects that leaves Illustrator’s color-mix- 
ing-path operations in the dust. Com- 
pared to Corel Draw’s Lens effects, how- 
ever, FreeHand’s still need some work: 
you can’t apply a Lens effect to editable 
text, you can’t multiply or screen objects 
that contain color, and FreeHand has an 
annoying habit of restoring the focal 
point to its default setting when you 
switch from one Lens effect to another. 

Painterly Editing Options 

FreeHand 8 offers several new functions 
designed to flatten the learning curve for 
new users and expand the range of edit- 
ing options for more-experienced folks. 
Borrowing again from Corel Draw, Free- 
Hand lets you double-click on one or 
more selected objects to enter the trans- 
formation mode. In this mode, you can 
drag a corner handle to scale or you can 
drag outside the selection to rotate, as in 
Photoshop. It’s incredibly intuitive, and I 
prefer it to using FreeHand’s crusty old 
scale and rotate tools. 

FreeHand 8 ships with several new 
effects Xtras lifted from the world of 
painting software. The Graphic Hose, 
inspired by MetaCreations’ Painter, 
deposits a series of objects as you drag 
across the page; the Emboss command 
adds beveled edges; the Shadow tool 
adds a hard or soft drop shadow; and the 
xMirror tool reflects a selected object 
multiple times to create a Spyrograph 
effect. Not all these Xtras lend them- 




One Drawing Controls Them All Using FreeHand 
8's Lens inspector, I assigned each of these circles a 
special fill effect, all linked to the fellow in the middle. 
If I so much as reshape his eyebrow, FreeHand will 
automatically change the other objects to follow suit. 



selves readily to an object-oriented envi- 
ronment — for example, the Graphic 
Flose is sensitive to neither pressure nor 
direction, as it is in Painter — but they 
add a little spice to the sometimes hum- 
drum world of vector drawing. 

My favorite new editing option is the 
flawed but promising Freeform tool. The 
bad news is that the tool tries to be too 
many things at once; an overabundance of 
preference settings and bewildering per- 
formance in certain modes are likely to 
turn off many users. But if you ignore the 
options and just experiment, you’ll dis- 
cover a pressure-sensitive modeling tool 
that lets you shape paths by rubbing it 
against them. It’s hardly a precision tool, 
but it’s great for achieving a hand-drawn 
look (see “Working Shapes like Clay”). 

The Big Interface 

FreeHand has never presented the most 
tighdy structured, logical interface on the 
block. But in the last version or two, the 
program has lurched dangerously toward 
the on-screen equivalent of mob rule by 
permitting new features to take prece- 
dence over structural organization. Free- 
Hand 8 boasts a main toolbox, two 
palettes to house all the Xtras, three pre- 
defined button bars, five multipanel 
inspectors, and a mishmash of random- 
size palettes. Some commands are found 
in tw^o or three menus; others are buried 
two or three panels deep. 

If you don’t like FreeHand’s default 
interface, make up one of your own. You 
can assign your own keyboard shortcuts 
or choose from a list of predefined set- 
tings designed to mimic the keyboard 
equivalents in QuarkXPress and Adobe 
PageMaker, Illustrator, and Photoshop. 
Your new' shortcuts are then listed in the 
menus next to the appropriate com- 
mands. A special keyboard trick allows 
you to drag tools out of one tool bar and 
drop them onto another w'ithout wading 
through a dialog box. 

I have two problems with this cus- 
tomizability. First, FreeHand doesn’t take 
it far enough: Xtras are off-limits, so you 
can’t move favorites such as the eyedrop- 
per and spiral tool to more-convenient 
locations, and you can’t add or delete 
menu commands, as you can in Micro- 
soft Word. Second, it feels like a cop- 
out — is FreeHand really giving us a new 
feature, or is it saddling us with the 
responsibility for managing a lumbering 
interface? I’d say it’s a little of both. 




B 



c 



Working Shapes like Clay Starting with a rectangle 
(A), I used the new Freeform tool to push and pull the 
shape until I arrived at a lumpy bat outline (B), adding 
most of the finishing touches (C) with the pen tool. 

Macworld’s Buying Advice 

If you’re a FreeHand loyalist, the program’s 
slightly enlarged smorgasbord of palettes 
and button bars isn’t likely to bug you. In 
fact. I’d go so far as to predict you’ll love 
FreeHand 8. Like versions 5 and 7 before it, 
this ambitious upgrade offers user-request- 
ed enhancements. In addition to offering 
those I’ve already mentioned, it lets you ras- 
terize objects in place, view' artwork in a 
pared-down but faster preview' mode, fill 
open paths, save custom views, and e.xport 
artw'ork in EPS fonnat without revisiting a 
dialog box. And FreeHand is available as 
part of the Design in Motion Suite, which 
also includes Flash 2 (for creating Web 
graphics and animation) and Insta.html 2 
(for exporting FreeHand files as HTML). 

But if you haven’t sw itched to Free- 
Hand, the enhancements in version 8 may 
not be sufficient to lure you away from 
Illustrator. As Macromedia surely know^s 
by now, loading a superfast program with 
lots of meaty features is no guarantee that 
artists will welcome you with open arms. 
FreeHand launches several times faster 
than the slow-loading Illustrator, and 
most of its operations are faster as well, 
but this speed is mitigated by a clumsy 
interface that too often impedes progress. 
FreeHand is die best drawing program on 
either platfonn, but at times I’d still rather 
be using Illustrator.— deke McClelland 

RATING: MM PROS: Dynamic Lens effects 
let you mix and magnify objects: easy to transform 
objects; straightforward Freeform reshaping tool; 
customizable shortcuts and button bars. CONS: 
Confusing, overcrowded interface. COMPANY: 
Macromedia (415/252-2000, www.macromedia 
com). COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: 
$399; Design in Motion Suite, $499. 



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Microsoft Office 98 

IT'S BIG, IT'S PRICEY, BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD SOFTWARE 



E very now and then, history 
takes a seemingly impossible mm. 
A polio vaccine is developed. The 
Berlin Wall falls. And now this: a 
humbled Microsoft bends over 
backward to embrace the Macintosh way. 
Although it has essentially the same vast 
feamre list ak its Windows counterpart, 
iVIicrosoft’s Office 98 productivity suite — 
consisting of Word, Excel, and Power- 
Point — adds genuine Macintosh ele- 
gance. AlacinTalk speech. Drag and Drop 
editing, and QuickTime are richly imple- 
mented; Word has a WYSIMWG Font 
menu; and the manuals are written and 
illustrated as though the Macintosh were 
the only computer on earth. 

The Macintosh Way 

When it comes to installing Office 98, 
xMicrosoft has done something for the 
Macintosh that it doesn’t do too often: 
innovate. You can install Office simply by 
dragging a folder from the CD-ROM to 
your hard disk (see “Microsoft Repents: 
Office 98 Makes Up for Past Sins,” March 
1998). You don’t even have to restart. In 
fact. Office 98 programs still launch — 
after a pause to load the necessary shared 
libraries — even with all extensions off. 

Quick launching is one of Office 98 ’s 
most attractive feamres. On a G3 Power 
Mac, for example. Word is ready to accept 
input a mere three seconds after you dou- 
ble-click on its icon. The psychological 
effect of this immediacy is enormous, 
making these huge programs feel as nim- 
ble as ClarisWorks. 

Internet feamres abound in Office 98. 
The primary programs let you save doc- 
uments as Web pages or attach a docu- 
ment to a message in your favorite e-mail 
program. Word can even Web pages, 
either off your hard disk or directly from 
the Web. And all three programs let you 
create blue, underlined links that open 
live Web pages or files on your hard drive. 

The three manuals offer task-orient- 
ed overviews of each program; if you need 
more information, you summon the 
searchable online help system from a 
menu or by clicking on the Assistant, an 
animated, entertaining character in a tiny 
QuickTime window that occasionally 



offers pointers while you work. 

However you get to the help pro- 
gram, it offers step-by-step instructions 
for whatever task you’re interested in. 
Unformnately, this approach breaks down 
when the instructions involve menu com- 
mands: since the help program becomes 
the active application, those menu com- 
mands are no longer available. 

Word 6 R.I.P. 

Word 98 represents the most successful 
overhaul in the Office suite: it’s smooth, 
stable, and full of pleasant surprises. 





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Ordering on the Menus To edit an Office 98 pro- 
gram's menus, you summon a duplicate, editable 
menu bar (shown here beneath the real one). Your 
changes become part of the actual menus. 

Examples: Word 98 proposes the first line 
of the document as the title when you save 
for the first time. If you poke the cursor 
near the top of the window, as though 
you’re seeking a way to change the mar- 
gin, the ruler slides smoothly into view. 
(You see a similar animation when new 
text pushes paragraphs downward — they 
slide, rather than jerking as they do in the 
V\^indows version.) And if you tr)^ to open 
a corrupted document, the Assistant 
offers to salvage what text it can. 

Many of the glitziest features, such as 
the table-drawing pencil, the ty^e-twist- 
ing Word x\rt, and the goofy but enter- 
taining AutoSummarize feature, make 
terrific demos but are of little importance 
in daily work. Fortunately, most of Micro- 
soft’s considerable effort has been expend- 
ed on little things that do matter. You’ll 
become attached, for e.xample, to the con- 



trol-key-activated contextual menu that 
offers synonyms for any word you click 
on. Style sheets can now update them- 
selves when you change a single occur- 
rence. And the Style menu itself is WWSI- 
VWG, showing the names of the styles 
with the correct size, font, and color. 

As you ty^De, subtle colored underlines 
flag spelling and grammar errors; control- 
click on a flagged word to view a pop-up 
menu of correction suggestions. If you 
prefer the usual after-the-fact method of 
spell checking, you’ll be equally pleased: 
the Spelling dialog box shows the error 
in context and in its original type style. 
You can correct the error by typing 
directly into this display or by double- 
clicking on a word in the suggestion list. 

Microsoft has done an excellent job of 
packing vast power into a comprehensi- 
ble, modern interface. But if you don’t 
like Microsoft’s interface, you can always 
design your own (see “Ordering on the 
Menus”). Fifteen minutes of reading the 
online help will teach you to add, delete, 
rearrange, and rename menus, menu 
commands, and tool bars. (A re-creation 
of Word 5.Ts menu bar is a click away for 
those still using that beloved, seven-year- 
old version.) 

Smarter Excel 

Since Excel already owns 99 percent of 
the Macintosh spreadsheet market, you 
wouldn’t think the company had much 
incentive to improve the program. Yet 
Excel, too, shows evidence of much pro- 
grammer soul-searching. 

Serious number crunchers will appre- 
ciate Excel 98’s ability to apply certain col- 
ors or type formats globally to cells that 
meet a certain condition — negative num- 
bers can turn red, for example. The long 
list of other high-end features includes 
data validation, new chart types, and per- 
sistent formatting in pivot tables. Espe- 
cially impressive is Microsoft’s implemen- 
tation of shared spreadsheets: changes 
made by different people appear in differ- 
ent colors, and the person who made the 
change is identified in a pop-up balloon 
when you p>oint to a changed number. 

Excel’s own numbers have improved, 
too. Each cell can hold up to 32,767 char- 
acters, each spreadsheet can have 65,535 
rows, and each Excel document consists 
of multiple tabbed spreadsheets. 

Again, it’s the little things that will 
please the most people. The multiple- 
level Undo command alone is worth the 



32 June 1 998 MACWORLD 




price of upgrading. Just as Word quiedy 
corrects common spelling errors as you 
type, so Excel watches for typical formu- 
la-entr}^ mistakes. In Print Preview, you 
can manually adjust the dotted lines that 
represent page breaks. And small anima- 
dons — such as the visible sliding of e.xist- 
ing columns when you insert a new one — 
give Excel a solid, polished feel. 

Presenting PowerPoint 

Microsoft’s slide-show program, Power- 
Point, is nowhere near as complex as Word 
and Excel, nor are the improvements as dra- 
matic. The scattershot list of new features 
generally falls into the Office 98 Grand 
Overhaul categories of Internet, help, inter- 
face, and collaboration. As in Word and 
Excel, for example, coworkers can add com- 
ments — here, in the form of yellow “sticky 
notes” — to your file. Multiple Undo is a 
welcome enhancement, as is the ability to 
save a presentation as a Web site (aldiough 
the result is, by default, one gigantic, full- 
screen graphic per Web page). 

PowerPoint’s slide-making apparatus 
has been beefed up, too. You get more 
canned templates, animations, stretchable 
shapes and arrows, and “action buttons” 
(for jumping to another slide, a Web page, 
or any file on your hard disk). 

Two of the new common-sense fea- 
tures are so good that you’ll never want 
to be without them again. First, when you 
prepare your presentation in the outline 
view, a thumbnail of the actual finished 
slide hovers nearby; no more flipping 
back and forth between \tiews to see if all 
your bullet points will fit. Second, you can 
create slide-show subsets of a master show 
within the same document — a great way 
to repurpose material. 

Office Extras 

The Office 98 CD-ROM also includes 
two programs that are available free from 
Microsoft’s Web site: Outlook Express 
(see “Tame Your E-Mail,” in this issue) 
and Internet Explorer 4.0 (see Reviews, 
May 1998). The advantages of getting 
Outlook Express as part of Office are that 
you can use Word’s spelling checker in 
OE and Outlook’s address book for Word 
mail merges. The downside is that OE 
can’t connect to America Online or stuff 
enclosures automatically. Explorer is also 
a mixed bag; Alicrosoft’s latest Web 
browser is rich with features but dog- 
slow, and its new “active channels” aren’t 
optimized for die Mac. 



The rest of the CD-ROM’s many 
extras are much more successful. Among 
them are programs called Remove Office 
98 and Remove Old Office Versions; a 
batch processor for converting clumps of 
Office documents from one format to 
another; templates, clip art, and fonts; all 
recent Mac OS updaters; and much more. 

Big Numbers, Small Bugs 

If software design were all that mattered. 
Congress would pass a law forcing 
ever)^one to install Office 98. Unfortu- 
nately, the administrative aspects of 
Office 98 aren’t nearly as appealing. For 
example, the hardware requirements 
show little respect for elderly Macin- 




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The Secret Formula Un<derstanding formulas is 
vastly easier in Excel 98 than in its predecessors. First, 
you can build a formula by typing labels instead of 
cell numbers. Second, when you double-click on a 
formula cell, color coding helps you match up for- 
mula components with the cells they refer to. 



tosh models. Office 98 requires a 
PowerPC machine, preferably 120xMHz 
or faster, running System 7.5 or later. 
Excel, Word, and PowerPoint want 
6MB, 9MB, and 10MB of RAJVI, respec- 
tively; add 4MB apiece to those numbers 
if you don’t use Connectix RAjVI Dou- 
bler or virtual memory. 

The package isn’t cheap, either: S499 
for the set, or $399 per stand-alone appli- 
cation. (Add $100 for the Gold Edition, 
which includes FrontPage, for Web 
authoring; the Encarta multimedia ency- 
clopedia; and the Bookshelf reference 
tool.) Office 97 for Windows costs the 
same but adds a database program, a rich- 
ly feauired calendar/address book, and a 
program called Microsoft Binder that lets 
you roll multiple Office documents into 
one file for easy distribution. 

Macworld’s Buying Advice 

Office 98 is a winner, but it’s not perfect. 
On some machines. Word 98 conflicts 
with RAM Doubler 2.0.2; the 2.0.3 
updater solves the problem. A similar 



updater will fix clashes with Adobe Type 
Reunion. You can’t create a hyperlink to a 
file whose name begins with a number. If 
you drag a program out of its original fold- 
er, you’re politely informed at the next 
launch that it won’t Rin until you move it 
back. And you could fill a hook with quib- 
bles about individual features — in fact, 
somebody did: Office 97 Annoyances 
(O’Reilly, 1997) makes great reading. 

Moreover, plenty of Mac users are 
actually upset with the successful aspects of 
Office 98. The shoddiness of the previ- 
ous Office versions opened a temporary 
window for such competitors as Claris- 
Works, WordPerfect, and Nisus \AYiter; 
now, widi Office 98 sure to be a smash hit, 
we’re even less likely to see competition 
in the Mac productivity-software market. 

On the other hand, buying Microsoft 
has its advantages. For example, technical 
support is free (although not toll-free). 
You can be confident that any significant 
bugs will be fixed in a free update. You can 
bet that Word 98 import filters will soon 
crop up for use with QuarkXPress and 
Adobe PageMaker. And you know your 
documents can be freely exchanged witli 
your Windows-using coworkers without 
conversion or translation. 

If you’re using Office 4.2, upgrade 
immediately. If you’re using older ver- 
sions, upgrade if you can handle the 
equipment requirements. \\Tatever you 
thought of Microsoft’s past Mac-software 
experiments. Office 98 is a powerful, 
intelligent, friendly package. This soft- 
ware suite demonstrates that for the first 
time in its histor\^, Microsoft truly under- 
stands what “Macintosh elegance” 
means.— DAVID pocue 

Microsoft Office 98 

OFFICE 98 MM 
EXCEL 98 MM 
POWERPOINT 98 MfV2 
WORD 98 MM 

PROS: Dramatically improved design; dozens of 
smart, user-oriented features; fast launch times; 
genuinely useful Internet integration. CONS: 
Demanding equipment requirements; fewer 
goodies than in Windows version. COMPANY: 
Microsoft (800/426-9400, www.microsoft.com/ 
macoffice). LIST PRICE: $499 (upgrade, $299); 
Gold Edition, $599 (upgrade, $399). 



www.macworld.com June 1 998 33 



Reiiens 



Windows 95 Emulators 



FEATURES GROW, PERFORMANCE STILL LAGS 



A lthough the newest ver- 
sions of Insignia Solutions’ Soft- 
Windows 95 and Connectix’s 
Virtual PC have gotten speedier 
and do an impressive job of emu- 
lating a Pentium-based PC, both prod- 
ucts still fail to deliver the performance 
of even a low-end Pentium-based PC. 

On the surface, SoftV\%idows 95 hasn’t 
changed dramatically, other than a re- 
designed setup window that greatly simpli- 
fies the task of configuring tlie program’s 




Copy Across Platform Virtual PC lets you drag a 
Mac folder to the PC environment 

preferences. But under the hood, SoftWin- 
dows 95 5.0 offers a much more sophisti- 
cated emulation engine, including support 
for SoundBlaster Pro, MMX, and Mac joy- 
sticks. New drag-and-drop support lets you 
copy text and pictures (not files) from Win- 
dows by dragging to the Mac desktop. 

Virtual PC 2.0 benefits from a bigger 
overhaul. The program’s emulation engine 
has been tweaked with the game-oriented 



user in mind, pro\dding improved DirectX 
support, better video emulation, and sup- 
port for 3D 6c Voodoo Graphics accelerator 
cards. Virtual PC 2.0 is also noticeably 
faster than die previous version — Connec- 
tix says it’s 25 to 40 percent speedier; I 
clocked a 15 to 18 percent boost. Other 
improvements include bidirectional copy 
and paste, long-file-name support, and 
cross-platform drag-and-drop file sharing. 

In Maavorld Lab tests, SoftWindows 
95 consistently performed faster than 
Virtual PC. But although it’s the fastest 
emulator, SoftWindows 95 is still three 
times as slow — on average — as a has-been 
90MHz Pentium PC. These speeds are 
acceptable for occasional, nonintensive PC 
use, but serious users will be disappointed. 

SoftWindows 95 may offer faster 
emulation, but Virtual PC wins in terms of 
ease of use, setup, and configuration. To 
copy a folder from your Mac to Virtual 
PC’s virtual hard drive, for example, you 
merely drag the file from die Finder into 
the Windows environment. Conversely, 
you can drag a Windows file to any Mac 
folder to open the file with a Mac applica- 
tion, all but eliminating the need to set up 
cross-platform shared folders. But if you 
want to share folders, you simply drag 
them from the Finder and drop diem onto 
the Shared Folder button in Virtual PC. 

In contrast, SoftWindows 95 ’s 
scheme for sharing drives and files is far 
less elegant. The program doesn’t offer 
die ability to drag files to and from Win- 
dows; you have to cross the divide via 
shared folders. You can share a folder by 
dragging, but this works only for a single 



folder mapped to the E: drive. You have to 
set up subsequent shared folders one by 
one using the Setup command, and if you 
want to share more than three other fold- 
ers, you have to use Windows 95 ’s Map 
Network Drive command to manually 
assign the folders to PC-drive letters. 

Virtual PC also provides more-flexible 
configuration options. SoftWindows, for 
example, maps the PC’s right mouse button 
to your Mac’s enter key, while Virtual PC 
lets you choose die modifier key. 

Macworld's Buying Advice 

If you can live with performance that’s 
three times as slow as a two-year-old Pen- 
tium PC, both of these programs deliver 
solid Windows 95 support for a great 
price. SoftWindows is marginally faster, 
but Virtual PC is less expensive and easi- 
er to set up and use, making it the better 
choice for putting Windows on your 
Macintosh.— JOSEPH schorr 



SoftWindows 95 5.0 

RATING: m PROS: Improved speed; faster 
than Virtual PC; drag-and-drop text and graph- 
ics copying. CONS: Much slower than an old 
Pentium; cumbersome folder sharing; can't drag 
files between platforms. COMPANY: Insignia 
Solutions (408/327-6500, www.insignia.com). 
COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: S199. 

Virtual PC 2.0 

RATING: f ff Va PROS: Improved speed; drag 
and drop between platforms; intuitive folder shar- 
ing. CONS: Much slower than an old Pentium; 
slower than SoftWindows 95. COMPANY: Con- 
nectix (650/571-5100, www.connectix.com). 
COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: S149. 




Emulators: Still Dramatically Slower Than an Old PC 

H Best result in test. Shorter bars are better. Times are in seconds. 



Microsoft Access 7.0 CorelDraw 6.0 Borland Paradox 7.0 Lotus Word Pro 96 



Connectix Virtual PC 2.0 

Insignia Solutions SoftWindows ^5 5 0 


NA* 

1 ''Qj 








Micron Millennium P90 (90MHz Pentium PC) ^ 


91 mm 


75 


113 


108 



* Product was unable to successfully complete this test 



Behind Our Tests Our Windows productivity suite utilizes select tests from Ziff-Davis’s WinStone 97 benchmark (www.winstone.com). Emulators were 
tested on a Power Mac 7300/200 equipped with 64MB of RAM, with 32MB of RAM allocated to Windows 95; the PC was equipped 
with 32MB of RAM.— Macworld Lab testing supenrised by Susan Sllvius 



34 June 1 998 MACWORLD 







DayStar Millennium G3/307 

HIGHLY EXPANDABLE SYSTEM IS FAST, INEXPENSIVE 



Y ou MIGHT ALMOST BELIEVE 
that the xMac-clone industry^ is still 
going strong: a licensee has intro- 
duced a sy^stem diat outpaces any- 
thing Apple has to offer. Mac- 
Works* DayStar Millennium G3/307 
claims PowerPC 750 processor speeds of 
307MHz, but Macworld Lab tests show 
that it actually runs faster — at 322MHz — 
thanks to a 1MB backside cache. (An 
upcoming Millennium model runs at least 



at 360MHz.) No other sy-stem comes 
close; not Apple’s new 300MHz Power 
Macintosh G3 tower, not even prototyq^e 
CHRP systems that never saw production. 

But the Millennium G3/307 offers 
more than raw speed. Using the same case 
design as the well-regarded DayStar Gen- 
esis MP, the Millennium is the ideal sys- 



tem for 3-D modelers and digital-video 
producers. (Note that only the Alillcnni- 
um*s 604e version supports multiple 
CPUs.) It offers easily accessible bays for 
seven hard drives, and two e.xternal bays 
for removable-media drives (one houses 
a CD-ROM drive). 

The system also sports si.x PCI slots, 
which high-end users will easily fill. 
(Apple’s G3 Macs offer just three.) In the 
Millennium model we tested, three slots 
held an ATI Nexus G.\ video 
cxird, a 1 OOBaseT Ethernet card, 
and an Ultra Wide SCSI-3 
card. (The motherboard comes 
with lOBaseT Ethernet, an 
external SCSI-1 port, and an 
internal SCSI-2 connector as 
standard equipment.) Our test 
sy^stem — which had two 9GB 
hard drives, an Iomega Jaz 
drive, and 128MB of R^ViVl — 
costs S6,049. The base model 
— which comes with a 4GB 
hard drive, 64MB of RAM, and 
a 4MB ATI XClaim \T^ video 
card — costs S3, 060. A key- 
board is extra in both s\^stems. 

Add digital-\ideo, sound, and .MPEG-2 
cards, and you have a multimedia monster. 
And don’t worry about RAM expansion — 
there are 12 DLVLM slots, compared with 
3 in Apple’s G3 Mac. All this expansion 
explains why the case is 50 pounds and 
twice the size of an Apple tower. 



Macworld Lab was unable to get an 
initial unit to work reliably. MacWorks 
chalked up the problem to a conflict with 
the installed iXMicro TwinTurbo card; 
we had no problems with the Nexus GA 
card sent to replace it. 

Although the Millennium G3’s tech- 
nology is sound — a combo of DayStar’s 
proven motherboard and case and Power- 
Logix’s fast new G3 CPU card — the com- 
pany is an unknown. DayStar Digital went 
bankrupt last year, and MacWorks bought 
die rights to its name and products. Also, 
Apple almost certainly w^on’t renew* any 
clone makers’ Mac OS licenses after July^, 
so long-term support for the Millennium 
remains in question. 

Also be wary^ of MacWorks’ pricing. 
All prices listed on the company’s Web 
site reflect a 2 percent cash discount, but 
Macworld recommends that you never pay 
cash for a mail-order product. MacWorks 
also offers a limited return policy: you 
can return only defective products. 

Macworld's Buying Advice 

The DayStar Millennium G3/307 is a 
fantastic system for demanding content 
creators. If you can handle the uncertain- 
ty of buying from a company that might 
not be around to support you in the 
future, then this system is a worthw'hile 
investment.— GALEN gruman 

RATING: MM PROS: Fastest Mac OS system 
available; huge expansion capacity. CONS: Long- 
term support uncertain. COMPANY: MacWorks 
(913/599-6227, www.macworks.com). DIRECT 
PRICE: Base model. $3,060; as tested. $6,049. 




DayStar G3 System Is New Speed Champ 

■■ Best overall performance. Longer bars and higher numbers are better. ^ New system. Bold Indicates the best result in a subsystem test 
SpeedMark scores are relative to that of a Power Mac 7100/80, which is assigned a score of 1.0. MacBench 4.0 scores are relative to that of a Power 
Mac 6100/60, which is assigned a score of 100. 

SPEEDMARK 



► MacWorks DayStar Millennium G3 5.7 

► Apple Power Madntosh C3/3(X) tower prototype 5.3 

Apple Power Macintosh G3/266 tower 4.5 

Umax SuperMac S900Base with Maxpowr Pro+ 250 4.5 

Apple Power Madntosh 9600/300 3.9 

'RAID disabled. 



MACBENCH 



Processor 


Disk 


Graphics 


1,169 


653* 


698 


1,054 


329 


855 


895 


362 


566 


907 


332 


547 


744 


351 


486 




Behind Our Tests Speed/Vtark runs 54 real-worW tasks In 15 programs and the Finder; MacBench 4.0 (available at www.macbcnch.com) measures performance of the 
processor (CPU/cache), disk, and graphics subsystems in Isolation from other components. Test systems were equipped with 32MB of RAM and 
configured with a 512K disk cache. Displays were set to 16-bit color In 832-by-624-pixel resolution.— Macworld Lab testing supervised by Gil Loyola 



www.macworld.com June 1 998 35 







ReHieuis 



MYOB Accounting Plus 7.5 

CAPABLE PACKAGE, BUT FEW IMPROVEMENTS 



W ITH THE RECENT DEMISE OF 
competing products such as 
Peachtree Accounting and Big 
Business, Best Ware’s MYOB 
Accounting takes over as the 
sole moderately priced, full-featured 
double-entry accounting program for the 
Mac. Happily, MYOB Accounting Plus 
7.5 readily satisfies most business 
accounting requirements, offering stan- 
dard accounting functions and payroll, 
inventory, and job-tracking features. The 
changes introduced in version 7.5, how- 
ever, are minor. 

The Learning Curve 

MYOB’s Easy Setup Wizard helps you 
create your chart of accounts, letting you 
build from scratch or modify those of 100 
sample businesses. The program walks 
you through setting preferences (such as 
setting an auto-save interval and specify- 




Step by Step MYOB's Easy Setup Wizard helps you 
quickly customize the program to suit your needs. 

ing whether to allow edits of completed 
transactions or to require reversing trans- 
actions), meaking the chart of accounts, 
and providing starting balances. From 
there, you move through specifying cred- 
it terms, creating customer and vendor 
lists, setting up payroll, and selecting 
linked accounts for purchases and sales. 

Although MYOB offers true double- 
entry accounting, you’re shielded from 
making balancing transactions. MYOB 
handles this process transparently using 
the aforementioned linked accounts^ where 
you specify^ the accounts affected by par- 
ticular transactions. (Customer receipts, 
for example, can be automatically credit- 
ed to a particular checking account.) 

If you’re familiar with other account- 



ing programs, you should have little trou- 
ble adapting to MYOB’s workflow. The 
program offers extensive help facilities, 
including sample reports, procedure 
guides, and step-by-step cue cards for less 
common procedures. Although MYOB’s 
graphic interface is unusual, most experi- 
enced users will catch on quickly. The 
procedure-oriented manual explains the 
precise steps necessary to accomplish 
standard accounting activities, such as 
reversing particular types of transactions. 

Nonaccountants, on the other hand, 
may not fare so well. Although a multi- 
media presentation explains accounting 
principles and shows how two sample 
businesses use the program, MYOB offers 
no tutorial, and its manual leaves basic 
questions unanswered. 

For example, a nonaccountant like 
myself might logically assume that pur- 
chases would be tracked in MYOB’s 
Purchases section. To complete each pay- 
ment transaction in this manner, though, 
you’d have to switch to the Bill Payments 
area to complete an additional form. A call 
to BestWare set me straight: to record all 
purchases on a single screen, you must use 
ATYOB’s Write Checks area, a less-than- 
intuitive notion for financial novices. To 
avoid this type of confusion, you’ll want to 
seek the advice of a professional for help 
with anything you don’t understand — beferre 
you enter dozens of records. BestWare 
offers 30 days of free technical support, as 
well as referrals to certified consultants to 
help you tackle tnily complex setups. 

Simplified Data Entry 

MYOB makes life easier in a number of 
small yet significant ways. MTien you tab 
out of an account field without entering 
data, for e.xample, a pop-up list of accounts 
appears. Vendor and customer fields can 
be filled simply by typing the first few 
unique letters of the company name. 

xMYOB’s card file lets you store 
addresses, phone numbers, credit terms, 
sales-tracking information, and current 
balances for all customers, vendors, 
employees, and personal contacts. Al- 
though it’s not a substitute for a dedicat- 
ed PLM, you can use the card file to main- 
tain a contact log, record time spent on 



billable activities, and set recontact dates, 
among other tasks. 

You can customize MYOB’s built-in 
reports by placing logos and other graph- 
ics; adding static text elements; resizing 
fields; and changing the font, size, and 
color of your text. You can easily define 
report criteria by specifying filters, con- 
tact-group identifiers, and date ranges. 
Reports can be saved, printed (individu- 
ally or in batches), viewed on screen, 
and — new to this version — saved as 
HTML tables for viewing on die World 
Wide Web or a company intranet. 

iMYOB lets you import and export tab- 
or comma-delimited files containing 
accounting, inventory, and contact data, 
but the xMacintosh product lacks the 
OfficeLink automation features found in 
the Windows version of MYOB. You can 
also import data from QuickBooks (on 
which Intuit has ceased development for 
the Mac version), but the conversion 
process has limitations you should be aware 
of before switching to MYOB. (Details and 
the conversion utility are both available at 
www.bestware.com/updates.htm.) 

Few New Features 

The most notable change in the MYOB 
7.5 upgrade is the program’s enhanced 
AppleScript support, which enables 
MYOB to exchange data with other appli- 
cations. Unfortunately, no sample Apple- 
Scripts are provided (BestWare says that 
samples will be available on its Web site 
over time). Other changes include the 
ability to generate statements that cover 
a particular date range, improvements to 
the bank-reconciliation process, and the 
ability to search by customer invoice 
number or vendor purchase order. 

Macworld’s Buying Advice 

Although accounting novices may need 
some hand-holding, MYOB Accounting 
Plus 7.5 is a great value and an excellent 
program for new users. The $69 upgrade, 
however, is compelling only if you can 
take advantage of the new HTML or 
AppleScript capabilities.— steven schwartz 

RATING: PROS: Easy setup; excellent 

help facilities: extensive report selection. CONS: 
Substandard tutorial; no sample AppleScripts. 
COMPANY: BestWare (973/586-2200, www 
.bestware.com). COMPANY'S ESTIMATED 
PRICE: $149. 



36 June 1 998 MACWORLD 




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Reuievis 



MacDrive 98 2.0 

DISK MOUNTER ADDS NT SUPPORT 

C LEARLY, WINDOWS NT IS FAST 
becoming part of cross-platform 
environments, and makers of 
cross-platform utilities are rushing 
to acid NT 4 capabilities to their 
products. Media4 Productions’ MacDrive 
98 is the latest utility to jump on the NT 
bandwagon. The Mac-disk-mounting 
utility’s newest version runs on both Win- 
dows 95 and NT 4 and will supposedly 
work smoothly with the forthcoming 
Windows 98 release. 

MacDrive 98 2.01 offers all the 
strengths of its predecessor, MacDrive 95 
1.3 (see “Mac Life Preserv'ers,” April 




Easy Additions MacDrive 98 adds new file and cre- 
ator information to its extension map by extracting 
the appropriate data from Mac files. 



1998), in addition to providing support 
for both Windows 95 and NT 4. Among 
the new version’s best features: support 
tor SCSI hard drives as well as practically 
any removable-media drives that both 
Windows and the Mac OS recognize. 
MacDrive integrates well into the Win- 
dows interface, displaying Mac-disk- 
formatting and -copying capabilities in 
Windows’ contextual menus. And iVIac- 
Drive lets yon access files from the Open 
and Save dialog boxes of all programs, as 
well as from the Windows Explorer (the 
equivalent of the Mac’s Finder). 

But xVIacDrive 98 does more than its 
predecessor. My favorite new feature lets 
you tell MacDrive 98 to read the Mac file 
and creator type from a specific document 
when adding a new file type to the pro- 
gram’s extension map. The e.xtension map 
tells MacDrive 98 which Windows file 
extension to associate with each Mac file 
and creator type, and vice v^ersa. These 
file and creator types are not easily found, 
which is why the program’s ability to 
extract them is so helpful. 



And, when you use Mac media, Mac- 
Drive lets you create and decode Mac- 
Binary files, which are perfect for network 
transfer and remote uploading since they 
typically take less space than more- 
commonly-used Web-based formats such 
as BinHex. MacDrive 98 can also decode 
BinHex files from Mac media, giving you 
the option (as with MacB inary) to store 
the decoded file in Mac file format (retain- 
ing the resource fork) rather than in PC 
format (with the resource fork removed). 

Also new is the ability to decide which 
volumes in a dual-formatted Mac/PC 
CD-ROM are loaded; MacDrive’s main 
competitor, DataViz’s MacOpener 3.0, 
also offers this feature. 

WTien copying Mac files, NT users 
can allow MacDrive 98 to retain the file’s 
Mac resource fork, as long as the files are 
being copied to a Mac-formatted disk or 
to a iMac volume on an NTFS-formatted 
hard disk created with NT’s Ser\dces for 
Macintosh. Such native Mac volumes are 
commonly used on NT servers. 

MacDrive 98 does an excellent job of 
mounting iMac volumes. In fact, it is so 
aggressive in its efforts that it confusing- 
ly mounted the remnants of my PC hard 
disk’s original Mac partition, causing 
Norton Utilities to choke on the phantom 
data. It turns out that my DOS disk- 
format utility left some of the disk’s space 
unused, and — since the drive had origi- 
nally been a Mac’s drive — portions of a 
Mac partition remained that no other 
Mac-disk mounter detected. Media4 pro- 
vided a downloadable fix that allowed 
MacDrive 98 to ignore my disk’s long-lost 
Mac data. 



Macworld’s Buying Advice 

MacDrive 98 offers the best set of features 
of all Mac-disk-mounting utilities, and 
seamless integration into Windows makes 
the program extremely easy to use. If you 
use Windows 3.1, you’ll prefer Mac- 
Opener 3.0 as your Mac-disk mounter. 
But for everyone else, MacDrive 98 is the 
utility of choice.— GALEN cruman 



RATING: f V} PROS: Mounts Mac media 
under Windows 95. 98. and NT 4; encodes and 
decodes MacBinary files; makes it easy to add new 
file types by importing Mac file and creator types. 
CONS: None significant. COMPANY: Media4 
Productions (515/225-7409. www.media4.com). 
COMPANY’S ESTIMATED PRICE: $65. 



Cinema 4D XL 

FASTEST 3-D RENDERER FOR THE MAC 

E lectricimage mas long been 
the high-end (and most e.xpensive) 
3-D animation package for the 
Mac, sporting one of the fastest 
tenderers around. The latest chal- 
lenger to Electricimage’s throne, Maxon 
Computer’s Cinema 4D XL 1 .0 (distrib- 
uted by 3D Gear), has all the ingredients 
of a great 3-D program. It can render 
images faster than Electricimage; it packs 
a full arsenal of pro-quality tools for mod- 
eling (still missing from Electricimage) 
and animation; and it lets you model, ani- 
mate, and render in a single interface. 

One of the main attractions of Cine- 
ma 4D XL is an object-oriented hierarchy 
that goes beyond the usual parent/child 
system. XL offers an Object Manager 
window that lets you transfer or duplicate 
properties (such as texture, size, color, and 
shadow casting) from object to object, an 
efficient way to update large amounts of 
object information in a complex scene. 

But XL’s centerpiece is a lightning-fast 
tenderer that can ray-trace high-polygon- 
count scenes faster than any other software 




Particular Particles In Cinema 4D XL, particles from 
a particle emitter can be individual lights that cast 
shadows. This scene has more than 40 light sources, 
all quickly rendered with XL's ray tracer. 

(including Electricimage’s Phong tender- 
er). For example, a scene that would slow 
down other tenderers — one with a highly 
detailed model and numerous light 
sources, transparencies, and soft shad- 
ows — posed no problem for XL, which 
zipped right through it to produce stun- 
ning ray-traced images and animations. 
The program is so fast, in fact, that ray 
tracing is a perfectly viable preview option. 

Cinema 4D XL includes impressive 
tools for NURBS, spline, and Boolean 
modeling, along with vertex-level editing. 



38 June 1 998 MACWORLD 





And its j^article system is simply awesome; 
for example, each particle in a particle 
effect can he a light source or even an ani- 
mated object — to create, say, a school of 
fish — resulting in some wild special 
effects (see “Particular Particles”). 

Equally impressive is XUs strong sup- 
port for inverse kinematics: once an 
object hierarchy is established, the IK 
engine locks objects together and allows 
natural movement when a link in the IK 
chain moves. XUs “bones” tools let you 
lay down a skeleton structure under an 
object surface and warp that object based 
on the skeleton’s movement. 

The CD-ROM includes both Mac 
and Windows NT v^ersions, something 
production studios will love. Another 
production-oriented advantage is that XL 
can import files in a wide variety of for- 
mats: Kinetix’s 3D Studio Max, Newtek’s 
LightWave 3D, Adobe Illustrator Wave- 
front, and DXF. Amazingly, imported 
scenery files retain most of the necessary 
elements, such as cameras, hghts, and tex- 
tures. Cinema 4D XL also supports an 
open plug-in architecture, which will 
allow third parties to develop more-in- 
depth modeling tools. 

XL’s interface, unfortunately, is a 
work in progress. Most of the windows 
could use some graphical and iconic 
touch-ups; the timeline could be more 
tightly designed, perhaps to resemble 
Adobe After Effects’; and the flat, gray 
interface would benefit from some color. 
In addition, the documentation lacks 
tutorials and examples — a real shortcom- 
ing in a program that has a learning cun^e 
typical of high-end 3-D software. 

Macworld's Buying Advice 

With a blazingly fast tenderer and a 
robust mix of modeling and animation 
tools. Cinema 4D XL has the potential 
to become the leading 3-D software for 
the Macintosh. Although it’s not priced 
for casual users, the program is well on 
its way to becoming a must-have tool for 
professional 3-D-production artists. 

—DAVID BIEDNY AND TRAVIS ESTRELLA 

RATING: MM PROS: Fast rendering: light 
sourcing and object animation with particles: intu- 
itive object hierarchy; IK support; variety of import 
formats. CONS: Unpolished Interface; weak 
manual. COAAPANY; 3D Gear (805/484-5804, 
www.cinema4d.com). LIST PRICE: $1,995. 



InterMapper 2.0 

INEXPENSIVE NETWORK MONITOR 
ECLIPSES THE COMPETITION 

WORLD-CLASS NETWORK- 
management tool even in its ini- 
tial release (see Reviecvs^ Januar)^ 
1997), InterMapper, from Dart- 
mouth College, offers a basic fea- 
ture set that matches products costing ten 
times as much. Version 2.0 puts Inter- 
Mapper well ahead of the competition, 
adding new feauires such as built-in Web 
servdng, flexible traffic graphs, server 
monitoring, and escalated notifications. 

InterMapper combines a network- 
discover)" and -mapping tool, network 
monitoring, historical logging, traffic 




Visualizing Traffic InterMapper's strip charts let 
you display network traffic, measured at multiple 
locations in your network, as a multicolor line graph. 



graphing, and real-time traffic display 
into a single application. With a powerful 
interface, InterMapper is simplicity itself 
to use: you launch it, and it discovers 
devices on your network, automatically 
locating and diagramming both AppleTalk 
and TCP/IP devices. Once InterMapper 
has drawn your network, you can use the 
built-in diagram editor to rearrange nodes 
and links, add descriptive text, and change 
the icons for various devices. InterMap- 
per’s monitoring function probes devices 
and collects traffic statistics periodically, 
displaying component status using color 
codes and traffic loads using “marching 
ants” to depict various data rates. 

When the status changes, you can 
trigger specific actions — e-mail mes- 
sages, alpha pages (with optional pag- 
ing software), Apple events, or appli- 
cation launches — and use a schedule to 
control w hen various actions can occur. 
InterMapper is remotely controllable 
via a secure Telnet log-in, letting you 
check your netw'ork status even wdien 



you’re away from the office. 

The original InterMapper depicted 
Ethernet hubs and switches as a single 
device with one network connection; ver- 
sion 2.0 shows every Ediernet port on a 
hub or switch. That lets you display indi- 
vidual hub and port connections and 
monitor traffic flow ing on those connec- 
tions. A built-in Web server gives any 
browser access to InterMapper’s status 
reports and network diagrams, letting you 
observe netw^ork status from anywhere 
on your netwwk. With IP-address secu- 
rity, access is limited to authorized users. 

InterMapper’s new strip charts graph 
traffic statistics for up to six devices each; 
you can plot traffic flow in packets or 
bytes per second, error counts, or band- 
width use. The graphs are flexible, let- 
ting you expand or compress the timehne 
and y-axis to zoom from a high-level view^ 
of several days to specific samples. 

Notifications now' support a time 
delay before firing, so you can escalate 
notifications for sustained problem con- 
ditions. For example, you might e-mail a 
local technician if a device is dow n for five 
minutes but page the network adminis- 
trator if it’s still dowTi after an hour. And 
you can now' customize probes for partic- 
ular Internet sendees (such as HTTP) to 
ensure, for example, that your Web serv- 
er is still delivering pages to users. 

The package includes a first-rate 
user’s guide and tutorial in PDF format; 
Dartmouth delivers regular updates on- 
line and gives registered owners access to 
beta releases. InterMapper still lacks one 
feature that managers of large networks 
would find useful, how'ever — SNMP trap 
handling. The developers say that that 
capability, originally expected in this 
release, is still in the future. 

Macworld's Buying Advice 

No network monitor approached Inter- 
Mapper’s original combination of fea- 
tures, ease of use, and low cost. With an 
array of new' capabilities — and no increase 
in price — InterMapper is a better deal 
than ever.— MEL beckman 

RATING: ♦M» Va PROS: Automatic network 
discovery and mapping: server monitoring: sta- 
tistical graphs: built-in Web server. CONS: Still 
no SNMP trap support. COAAPANY: Dartmouth 
College (603/646-2643, www.dartmouth.edu/ 
netsoftware/intermapper/). LIST PRICE: $795. 




www.macworld.com June 1 998 39 



Reuieuis 



Eudora Pro 4.0 

POWERFUL BUT CLUNKY E-MAIL CLIENT 

W ITH SO MUCH BUSINESS COM- 
munication relying on e-mail, 
having the right e-mail client can 
make a big difference in produc- 
ti\nty. Simple mail programs, like 
the one built into Netscape Communicator, 
are fine if you don’t get much mail. Qual- 
comm’s Eudora Pro 4.0 offers serious e-mail 
handling that can manage a virtual 
onslaught with aplomb, though it still has a 
ways to go in the ease-of-use department. 

Version 4.0 adds some welcome new 
features. For example, it doesn’t mind if you 
have multiple e-mail addresses — you can 
check for mail at all your addresses in one 
step — and you can send and receive e-mail 
in the background. You can also apply 
simple HTML text formatting to your mes- 
sages, although recipients who aren’t run- 
ning an HTML-compatible mail program 
will see nasty-looking HTML code. 

Eudora Pro supports LDAP, an in- 
creasingly popular protocol for online 
white pages, and ACAP, a new protocol 
that lets system administrators configure 
Eudora automatically from a server. Miss- 
ing from this version is support for LMAP, 



Storage Wizard 2.0 

ORGANIZES YOUR HARD DRIVE 

HERE ARE FEW SURE THINGS 
in life: death, ta.xes, Mac OS updates, 
and diminishing hard-disk space. 
FWT Software’s Storage Wizard 2.0 
extends the useful life of hard disks 
by compressing files, migrating lesser-used 
documents to alternate media, and creating 
intelligent archives that can be accessed in 
seconds. Even if you’re not pressed for disk 
space, Storage Wizard’s mirroring facility 
provides automatic backups and creates free 
space that can be used for virtual memorv^ 
A renamed upgrade from FWT3’s award- 
winning HSM Toolkit, this enhanced ver- 
sion sports a friendlier interface, allows 
monitoring of more than one disk volume, 
and can be configured using a new Rule 
Wizard. You can, for example, specify that 
whenever your hard disk becomes 90 per- 
cent full, all files that haven’t been accessed 
in six months should be compressed in 
place; transferred to a holding folder; or 
moved to storage, such as a networked hard 
disk, a removable-media driv^e, or virtually 
any other storage device except tape drives. 
Files can be relocated to an easily searched 
archive, with or without an alias left behind 




Easy Access, Flashy Text Eudora Pro’s new tabbed 
windows make it easy to switch between mailbox- 
es, signatures, and other frequently used areas. Note 
the HTML-styled text in the open message. 

a newer standard for retrieving e-mail. 

You can now create filters that route 
messages to a particular mailbox, but 
Eudora’s filter capabiliw takes a backseat 
to Claris Emailer’s. For example, let’s say 
that you want messages from people you 
know to show up at the top of your in-box, 
highlighted in red. In Emailer, it takes one 
step to set up this filter; Eudora Pro 
requires a separate filter for each person. 
Emailer’s address book is also superior, 
easily handling a recipient’s multiple 
e-mail addresses. WTiile you can put mul- 
tiple e-mail addresses for one recipient in 
Eudora’s address book, all those addresses 




Ruling the Roost Storage Wizard can set up rules 
automatically, or you can enter default preferences. 



in their original folder. Files and applica- 
tions that will never be used again can be 
directed to the Trash. 

Other parameters let you specify how 
crowded a hard disk should get, whether to 
move files that haven’t been backed up, and 
which files should be automatically 
archived. You can choose which folders 
Storage Wizard should manage, and mark 
the ones it should ignore. The program can 
automatically mirror modified files on a sec- 
ond storage device and flag changed or 
mov^ed files with Finder labels and colors. 

In informal tests, Storage Wizard found 
many megabytes of wasted space on a 6GB 
hard disk with 3 GB of free space. Using a 
few simple rules, the utility ferreted out 



appear when you create a message. 

Qualcomm has rearranged Eudora’s 
interface to make it easier to use, and you 
can combine several previously separate 
window^s into one tabbed window. It’s also 
easier to manage signatures and e-mail sta- 
tionety. But initial setup could be easier, and 
the Settings dialog box is still a nightmare 
of bewildering preferences. 

Macworld's Buying Advice Eudora 
Pro has improved to the point that it’s rough- 
ly equivalent to the current version of Claris 
Emailer, although Emailer has the edge in 
ease of use. If you’re familiar with earlier v^er- 
sions of Eudora, you’ll have no problem get- 
ting up to speed with version 4.0; unfortu- 
nately, there’s no discounted upgrade price. 
If you’re not already on the Eudora band- 
wagon, download tlie demo versions of both 
Eudora Pro and Claris Emailer and see 
which one you prefer.— tom necrino 

RATING: fMVa PROS: Improved Interface; 
good support for checking multiple e-mail 
accounts; supports several new Internet proto- 
cols. CONS: Setup needs better help facilities; mail 
filters lack flexibility; poor handling of multiple 
addresses for one recipient. COMPANY: Qual- 
comm (619/658-1291, www.eudora.com). COM- 
PANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: S39. 



candidates for deletion or removal to off- 
line storage and then constantly monitored 
the disk in the background. 

As with its predecessor, Storage Wiz- 
ard’s extension tracks when an application 
or data file is used, and it can be taught to 
ignore accesses by Symantec Norton Disk 
Doctor, Aladdin Stuffit Expander, or any 
other program. A database determines 
which files have been idle long enough for 
action and which previously migrated files 
should be promoted to active status on your 
hard disk. You can also select and migrate 
files manually when you finish a project. 

Macworld's Buying Advice Storage 
Wizard 2.0 offers more-flexible archiving 
and security tlian conventional backup pro- 
grams, and it continues to liberate disk space 
with its rule-based evaluation of which files 
you really do need on your drive. Once 
you’ve put Storage Wizard to work, it keeps 
monitoring your disks in the background to 
keep them clean, lean, and uncluttered. 

—DAVID D. BUSCH 



RATING: PROS: Smooth background 

operation; seamless file tracking and compression. 
CONS: No tape-drive support. COMPANY: FWB 
Software (650/482-4800, www.fwb.com). LIST 
PRICE: S79. 




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PageStream 3.3 

FLAWED PACE-LAYOUT PROGRAM 

T he latest in a series of 

page-layout packages to take on mar- 
ket leaders QuarkXPress and Adobe 
PageMaker, SoftLogik’s PageStream 
was originally developed for the 
Commodore Amiga. SoftLogik boldly pro- 
claims PageStream 3.3 to be the best desk- 
top publishing program on any platform; 
indeed, in a feature-by-feanire comparison, 
it does appear to hold its own with its bet- 
ter-known competitors. But a long feature 
list does not necessarily make for a useful 
product, and PageStream has some glaring 
weaknesses — most notably a flawed undo 
function and an inability to import Micro- 
soft Word files directly — that most publish- 
ing pros will find unacceptable. 

PageStream ’s approach to page layout 
borrows from that of both QuarkXPress 
and PagexVIaker. PageStream uses text boxes 
in a manner reminiscent of QuarkXPress, 
and it includes such XPress niceties as Bezi- 
er drawing tools and character style sheets. 
But it also puts each page or spread on a 
PageMaker-styde pasteboard and mimics 
PageMaker’s approach to placing graphics: 
instead of drawing a picture box and then 







The Sincerest Form of Flattery PageStream's inter- 
face borrows heavily from that of its competitors. 

importing the image, you just select the file 
and click where you want it to go. 

PageStream offers impressive typo- 
graphic functions, including kerning and 
ligature controls and the ability to track ty|3e 
in increments as small as 0.01 percent. 
Drawing features are also strong: you can 
create unusual shapes for use as image masks 
or text boxes and convert text to paths. All 
objects can be grouped, rotated, resized, and 
assigned stroke-and-fill characteristics. 

These features could make for a pow- 
erful desktop publishing contender, but 
SoftLogik has overlooked some fundamen- 
tal needs of Mac-based publishing profes- 
sionals. Betraying its origins, the software 
can import files in the Amiga text format 
but not in Word, Claris MacWrite, or any 



other Mac-specific format other than Corel 
WordPerfect. SoftLogik says it’s working 
on a Word import filter. 

PageStream’s user interface is down- 
right sloppy. For example, if you have two 
linked text blocks and make one smaller, the 
text doesn’t automatically flow; it disappears 
until you enlarge the second box. And while 
the program theoretically allows multiple 
undos, many operations can’t be undone at 
all. This makes the Undo command some- 
what unpredictable: if you add text, draw a 
circle, and then choose Undo, the text is 
removed and the circle remains. 

AAacworld's Buying Advice Despite 
the version number, this is the first full 
PageStream release for the Macintosh, and 
it feels like a work in progress. If SoftLogik 
fixes the program’s many flaws, it may offer 
a viable alternative to PageiVIaker — and per- 
haps even QuarkXPress. In its current incar- 
nation, however, PageStream falls far short 
of the competition.— STEPHEN beale 

RATING: f V2 PROS: Strong typographic and 
drawing tools. CONS: Poor word-processor sup- 
port; flawed Undo command; sloppy user Inter- 
face. COArtPANT: SoftLogik (314/305-7878, 
www.softlogik.com). LIST PRICE: S595 (Intro- 
ductory price of Si 99 available indefinitely). 



World Wide Web Weaver 3.0 

USER-FRIENDLY HTML EDITOR HAS SOME ROUGH EDGES 



F or a developer, updating 

software is like rock climbing: if you 
don’t test a new handhold before you 
commit your weight to it, you may 
be in for a long fall. In some ways. 
Miracle Software succeeds with World 
Wide Web Weaver 3.0, combining the 
power and flexibility of text-based Web- 
page editors with the ease of use of \WSI- 
WHl'^G editors. Unfortunately, some of Web 
Weaver’s new features tend to crumble 
beneath your fingertips. 

Web Weaver is built for Web-page cre- 
ators who already have a thorough grasp of 
HTML and Web concepts. For example, 
the default start-up document is a blank 
page with preformatted <html>, <head>, 
and <body> tags. Underneath the gruff 
exterior, though, lies some pretty^ helpful 
software. Web Weaver can automatically 
create just about any type of tag — just pull 
down the Tags menu or click on a button in 
the tool bar, and fill in the resulting dialog 
box. Web Weaver keeps your document 
easy to read by highlighting tags in a vari- 
ety of colors and formatting your text when 
you apply style tags. If you’re coding 




Click but Don't Drag Web Weaver's frame editor 
helps you visualize the browser window, but resiz- 
ing the frames by dragging the edges will make a 
horrible mess. 

H'FML by hand, you can ask Web Weaver 
to sweep your document, checking your 
syntax and colorizing your tags. 

Web Weaver sports semi- WYSIWYG 
editors for frames, tables, and image maps, 
among other complex tags, but it’s a toss- 
up as to whether they’re a help or a hin- 
drance. For instance, Web Weaver’s image- 
map tag editor consists of two cross-linked 
modal dialog boxes packed with cool but 
wobbly tools that leave you wondering if 



the software is working properly: text that 
should appear automatically sometimes 
doesn’t, and clicking on an image map to 
make it active occasionally won’t. And the 
WYSIMWG table editor, while well con- 
ceived, is marred by clunky performance 
and screen-redraw problems. Possibly the 
worst offender, though, is the frames edi- 
tor, whose centerpiece is a graphic repre- 
sentation of what the browser .screen will 
look like after you subdivide it (see “Click 
but Don’t Drag”). The interface invites you 
to resize the frames by dragging their bor- 
ders. But monkeying with the frames graph- 
ic will freeze up the tag editor, and you’ll 
have to cancel out and tty again. 

AAacworlcTs Buying Advice Web 
Weaver’s shortcomings are a shame, because 
the software is both inviting and education- 
al. xMiracle Software says it’s working on ver- 
sion 3.0.1, which should fix a nasty drag- 
and-drop bug and otherwise polish up the 
package. My advice is to wait for the 
update — and make sure your safety harness 
is firmly attached.— cameron crotty 

RATING: Vj PROS: Text-based editor intu- 

itive, easy to use. CONS: Advanced tools aren't 
reliable. COMPANY: Miracle Software (3 15/265- 
0930, www.miraclelnc.com). LIST PRICE: S89. 



www.macworld.com June 1998 49 



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LightningDraw/Web 

VECTOR-BASED WEB GRAPHICS 

W HEN APPLE KILLED OFF 
QuickDraw GX, it looked like 
curtains for an amazing GX- 
based illustration program called 
LightningDraw, from Lari Soft- 
ware. But since Apple rolled QuickDraw 
GX’s power into QuickTime 3.0, Lari is 
suddenly in the catbird seat: its Lightning- 
DrawAVeb 1.1.1 is the only tool to support 
QuickTime’s new vector-graphics features, 
letting you create comple.x illustrations and 
save them as tiny QuickTime files. 

As its name implies, Lightning- 
DrawA^^eb is targeted at Web developers. 
Lari wants you to replace the GIF images 
on your Web page with vector-based 
images, which are generally much smaller 
than even compressed bitmaps. But despite 
using QuickTime for saving files, Light- 
ningDrawAVeb doesn’t create animations; 
QuickTime is merely the container for the 
resulting single-frame illustrations. Since 
competing vector-based tools, such as 
Macromedia’s Flash 2.0 (see Reviews^ Sep- 
tember 1997), offer animation and user- 
interaction effects, this is a major failing. 
Other drawbacks: the QuickTime vector 



DenebaCAD 1.5 

ARCHITECTURAL CAD PROGRAM EXCELS 

D ENEBACAD HAS GROW^^ UP FAST. 
AA'Tien we looked at version 1.0.2, we 
gave it high marks for its impressive 
rendering features but noted that it 
had the unfinished feel of a beta ver- 
sion {Reviews^ March 1998). Version 1.5, 
released a mere three months later, not only 
sets a speed record for improvement; it’s also 
easier to use and produces stunning, photo- 
realistic architectural renderings at speeds 
that will simply dazzle clients viewing a 
walk-through. 

Li a world where AutoDesk’s AutoCAD 
is the standard, the most important addi- 
tions to DenebaCAD 1 .5 are new drawing 
features, scalable arrows and text, and 
upgraded dimensioning tools; they let the 
program import and export AutoCAD DXF 
and DWG files with no translation glitch- 
es in objects or descriptive text. Deneba- 
CAD’s file exchange with AutoCAD is now 
better than that of programs costing thou- 
sands more. 

DenebaCAD 1.0 supported multiple 
open windows with different views of the 
same project, but the new version’s perfor- 
mance improvements make it practical to 




See-through Hues LightningDraw/Web's power- 
ful transparency options let you quickly create effects 
that would be difficult in other illustration programs. 



track doesn’t support bitmapped objects; 
you can’t link different parts of a drawing 
to different URLs; only linear gradients are 
supported; and you can’t print your images. 

But as far as drawing goes, the user 
interface is nearly perfect, offering a smart 
combination of well-designed palettes and 
logical menus. The Reshaper tool lets you 
grab and move any point on a line, cur\'ing 
the rest of the line to follow; the Cut tool 
lets you carve out interior portions of a 
polygon. You can make objects transparent, 
affecting the color of objects underneath. 
Text handling is superb, especially with GX- 
sa\wy fonts. The InConcert feature is par- 
ticularly dazzling, allowing you to add or 
subtract shapes to create complex polygons. 




Welcome Want to see how this room looks from 
the sofas in the corner? DenebaCAD 1 .5 can redraw 
the scene almost instantaneously. 

demo — on a laptop and in real time — a 
2-D plan in one window, a 3-D wire-frame 
plan in another, a 3-D solid view in a third, 
and an amazing video-like view in the 
fourth. The latter offers fast ray tracing to 
display lighting shifts, great handling of 
reflection and transparency, and the most 
realistic assortment of surface textures you’ll 
find for less than $1,000. 

Most of the problems in the first 
release — uneven librar)' content, repetitive 
error messages, sluggish performance on 
some operations, and the general Canvas- 
with-CAD-tacked-on feeling — have all 
been fixed, and in record time for a program 
this complex. The included libraries still 
offer much more support for designing 



And LightningDrawAVeb imports GIFs, 
PICTs, and Illustrator files, although it 
drops text during import. 

To create a vector graphic for use on the 
Web, you select the Export as QuickTime 
option and specify settings for compression 
and display quality. (In your HTML file, 
you add an <embed> tag where you want 
the image to appear.) LightningDrawAVeb 
can also export images as GIF89a, I PEG, 
and GX PICT files. 

Macworld's Buying Advice Light- 
ningDrawAVeb is a powerful program that 
offers unique support for QuickTime 3.0’s 
vector-graphics track. But despite Quick- 
Time’s possibilities, Web designers probably 
won’t rush to abandon GIFs. Either way, the 
program’s viewing audience will be minimal 
until QuickTime 3.0 is generally available. 
And until LightningDraw/Web supports 
vector animations, it’ll be no match for 
Flash.— ROB TERRELL 



RATING: PROS: Only product to support 

QuickTime vector graphics; excellent user interface 
and illustration tools. CONS: Can’t produce ani- 
mations; can’t link different parts of an illustration 
to different URLs; QuickTime 3.0 not yet widely 
adopted. COMPANY: Lari Software (919/968- 
0701.www.larisoftware.com). LIST PRICE: $99. 



homes and offices than for designing 
machine parts; Deneba is obviously push- 
ing the product to e.xcel in one area rather 
than delivering a lumbering behemoth that 
does everything. 

Wth no support for macros or script- 
ing, DenebaCAD still lacks BASIC-level 
programmability. Again, that may be a 
drawback for mechanical engineers, but for 
architects — DenebaCAD’s target audi- 
ence — it’s only a minor concern. If you’re 
designing components for plastic injection 
molding, tty Diehl Graphsoft’s MiniCAD; 
if you’re designing an office-building atri- 
um, on the other hand, get DenebaCAD. 

Macworld's Buying Advice With 
DenebaCAD 1.5, Deneba has not only 
repaired the glitches in the previous release 
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Unfortunately, version 1.02 feels more like 
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Once the Mac’s configured, the server 
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window. The client application gives you an 




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SpeedShare offers access control based 
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Domain ambitiously attempts to 
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As Pax Imperia begins, players select 
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ferences fall flat in game play, where control 
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The game’s graphics are similarly lack- 
luster, offering a mere handful of planetary 
surfaces. And despite the existence of eight 
species, all colonies build the same buildings. 
Spaceship fleets allow players to differenti- 
ate diemselves during combat, but it’s hard- 
ly enough to give a unique feel to each 




The Eternal City No matter which race — even sub- 
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species. Ships themselves resemble 2-D card- 
board cutouts and move with similar grace. 

Pax Imperia’s novelty lies in real-time 
play, but this innovation proves to be a 
strong limiting factor. For example, instead 
of selecting buildings to be constructed, you 
set (or modify, with great inconvenience) 
priorities for the types of buildings impor- 
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But tedious game play isn’t the worst 



news: numerous bugs lurk in Pax Imperia’s 
code. Even with a patch downloaded from 
the company’s Web site, you’ll want to save 
frequently to ensure that you don’t lose that 
time-consuming space-station project. 

The game’s poorly written manual 
assumes you’re using Windows, so despite 
a simple main interface, the learning curve 
is steep. Would-be tacticians will weep as 
their ships head dumbly to their doom. 

Many a mediocre game gains new life 
in nenvork play, but Pax Imperia does not. 
There’s no way to save a network game, no 
way to alter the speed, and — once you’ve 
figured out how to get a game going — no 
stopping it, unless you crash. 

/Wacworld's Buying Advice Ill-con- 
ceived and poorly implemented. Pax Impe- 
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of nothing more than an vmfinished product. 
Players new to strategy games may be for- 
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RATING: ff PROS: Simple interface. CONS: 
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THE STYLISH NEW 
POWERBOOK G3'S 
THREATEN THE RELEVANCE 




MAGINE YOURSELF WALKING 
into work one morning and 
noticing that some of the 
Macs in your office are miss- 
think, Maybe they^ve been stolen, 
dreadful possibility occurs to 
department snatched them away 
and they^re going to be nplaced by 
But then your coworkers start 
out sleek black notebook corn- 
briefcases, set the machines up 
press the start keys. You hear 
the flimiliar Macintosh start-up bongs; see die familiar Mac 
OS logos; and realize that while you weren't paying 
attention, your compatriots' desktop Macs have been 
replaced with PowerBooks. 

Science fiction, you say. PowerBooks will never replace 
desktops, right? 

Perhaps that seemed true once. OK, perhaps that's 
always seemed true. But it’s not true anymore. Apple’s new' 
PowerBook G3 line has closed the gap. For all but the 
most demanding computing tasks, these stylish new note- 
books are worth serious consideration as alternatives to their 
desktop counterparts. The new Pow^erBooks combine 



ing. At first you 
Then an even more 
you: Maybe the IS 
in the dark of night, 
Windows 7nachines! 
arriving. They pull 
puters from their 
on their desks, and 



speed, accessibility, a no-compromise set of features, and 
surprisingly low prices. Which pretty much covers w hat 
you'd want from any machine — even a desktop computer. 

Better yet, Apple’s inclusion of the new^ Pow'erBook 
G3 systems in its online build-to-order program means 
customers soon wdll have a vasdy e.\panded set of config- 
uration options for Mac portables. Whether you’re a cash- 
challenged consumer or a money-is-no-object executive, 
you’ll be able to customize a mobile Mac that has the fea- 
tures you need, at a price that won’t break the bank. 

WELCOME TO AREA 51 

This is probably the best-looldng Pow'crBook line Apple’s 
ever shipped. After a string of portable-computer designs 
that were perhaps best described as utilitarian, Apple has at 
last returned to the strong industrial-design values that made 
the early generations of Mac portables so distinctive: the 
plastics are dark gray — practically black — and use a variety 
of textures and surface reflecti\nty to give the new design an 
almost otherworldly look. Curves are in evidence ever)'^- 
where. In short, it’s a pleasure to behold, altliough perhaps 
a little more X-Files than executive-suite. About the only 
questionable design choice is the huge white Apple logo 



BY HENRY BORTMAN 






inlaid on the top cover. Apple refers to this as a “crystal” 
logo; other, more savory adjectives could also be applied. 

You’ll also notice that the new design’s physical dimen- 
sions are dramatically different from those of previous 
PowerBooks. The PowerBook G3 is huge: nearly an inch 
deeper (from front to back) and almost an inch and a quar- 
ter wider than the 3400. This may cause problems if you 
travel in coach. On the plus side, it’s only 2 inches thick 
when closed, so it’s easy to grasp ^\^th one hand and tuck 
under your arm. The weight is the same as the 3400’s: 
7.7 pounds with battery and CD-ROM drive installed. 

But enough on appearance. If you’re thinking of buy- 
ing a PowerBook G3, you’re probably more interested in 
getting your work done. You want to know what’s inside. 
And what it’s going to cost you. 

THE TRUTH IS IN THERE 

Although based on a single logic board and industrial 
design, the new^ PowerBook G3 replaces the entire current 
line of PowerBooks, with the notable exception of the 2400 
subnotebook The 1400, the 3400, and the original Pow- 
erBook G3 will all fade into memory. (In case you’re con- 
fused about the relationship between the original Power- 
Book G3 and this model, there is none; they’re completely 
different beasts. Apple’s moniker-meisters just wanted to see 
if you were paying attention.) 

Starting at $2,299 for a low-end configuration, you can 
trade off features to get that new G3 PowerBook to fit 



almost any budget or pack it with options until it busts your 
bottom line. It’s your call. Here’s a look at the options. 

Processor You can choose a 233MHz, 250MHz, or 
292MHz G3 processor, which comes on a daughtercard. 
Apple’s not saying officially that it’s upgradable (the com- 
pany wants to avoid unnecessary entanglements with the 
FTC), but it is. 

The 233MHz processor will have a system bus clocked 
at 66MHz and will lack an L2 cache, so performance is 
somewhat compromised (see the benchmark, “Pow-erBook 
Performance Catching Up”). The 2 50MHz and 292AIHz 
processors have system-bus speeds of 83MHz, meaning that 
PowerBooks using these CPUs have the fastest system buses 
available on any Mac. Both the latter processors come with 
a 1MB backside cache, with a 2:1 cache-to-bus-speed ratio. 

RAM You’ll be able to install a maximum of 
192MHz of high-speed SDRAM in the PowerBook’s two 
SO DIMiVI RAM slots, which reside on the processor 
daughtercard. You can order a system w-ith 16MB, 32MB, 
64MB, 128MB, or 192MB preinstalled. If you order 64AIB 
or less, Apple will fill only the bottom RAAI slot, leaving 
the top slot — the more easily accessible one — free for 
future upgrades. SO DIMAI is a PC-industry-standard 
RAM card design, so w-hen the time comes to upgrade, 
finding RAM that fits shouldn’t be a problem. 

Display Apple is offering some giant-size new 
options here. You have a choice of three displays. The 
12.1 -inch passive-matrix option comes with 2MB of 
VRAM (not upgradable) and has a resolution of 800 by 



iWillll PowerBook Performance Catching Up 



LAB TEST 



■■ Best overall performance. Longer bars and higher numbers are better. ► New system. Bold indicates the best result in a subsystem test. SpeedMark 
scores are relative to that of a Power Macintosh 7100/80, which is assigned a score of 1.0. MacBench 4.0 scores are relative to that of a Power 
Macintosh 6100/60, which is assigned a score of 100. 

SPEEDMARK MACBENCH 



The Newest G3 Notebooks . . . 

► PowerBook G3/292 prototype 

► PowerBook C3/250 prototype 

PowerBook G3/250 



► PowerBook G3/233 prototype - 

PowerBook 3400C/240 

PowerBook 1400c/166 



I 

4.4 

3.9 

3.5 

2.9 

1.9 
1.1 



Processor 


Disk 


Graphics 


1,031 


295 


663 


881 


242 


618 


747 


314 


380 


445 


226 


396 


337 


226 


232 


154 


153 


129 









329 


855 ! 


Power Macintosh 96(X)/3CX) 




i 744 


351 


486 1 








Bohind Our Tests Macworld's SpeedMark test suite 


runs 54 real-world tasks In 15 


cache. All displays were set to 16-bit color. The 292MHz and 250MHz 



programs and the Finder to determine overall performance of a Mac, 
MacBench 4.0 uses special test programs tuned to measure and isolate 
the performance of the processor, disk, and graphics subsystems. 
(Download your own free copy of MacBench 4.0 from 
www.macbench.com.) The tested systems had 32MB of RAM. Mac OS 
8.0 (Mac OS 8.1 for PowerPC 750-based systems), and a 512K disk 



PowerBook prototypes have fixed 1,024-by-768-pixel displays, while 
all other systems were tested with either 800-by-600*pixel or 832-by- 
624-pixel displays. This difference in display type means that the 
SpeedMark scores were lowered slightly on the 292MHz and 250MHz 
PowerBooks, because scrolling tests take longer on a higher-resolution 
display.— Macworld Lab testing supervised by Gil Loyola 



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Unearthly Connections 











ALL THE NEW POWERBOOK G3 
models come with a full comple- 
ment of standard Macintosh 
ports, plus some surprise extras 
such as an S-Video~out port, for 
connecting to camcorders or tele- 
visions. And for those occasions 
when you're leaning over the 
front of the PowerBook with a 
cable in hand, trying to tell your 
serial port from your ADB port. 



D E F G H 

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ajit 

J 



the port labels are duplicated on A 

the inside of the back cover. B 

The PowerBook G3 also marks C 

the arrival of full-speed, IrDA- D 

standard-compliant infrared E 

networking on PowerBooks. F 

Finally, PowerBook infrared will G 

deliver usable— some might even H 

say snappy— 4MBps connections 
for quick and easy point-to- I 

point networking. J 



Stereo sound in 
Stereo sound out 
AC power 
ADB 

Serial (LocalTalk) 

lOBaseT Ethernet 

SCSI (HDI-30 connector) 

S-Video out (comes on 13.3- 

and 14.1 -inch configurations) 

VGA video out 

IrDA (4MBps infrared) 



ft' 



600 pixels (SVGA). Like previous PowerBook displays, 
it can support up to thousands of colors internally or mil- 
lions on an external monitor. 

Although the passive-matrix screen will no doubt 
appeal to the severely budget-constrained, many Power- 
Book buyers will probably want to break open their piggy 
banks to pop for the big, vibrant 13.3- and 1 4. 1 -inch active- 
matrix displays. The two larger screens come with 4MB of 
VRAAI and have resolutions of 1,024 by 768 pixels (XGA). 
They support — take note, this is a first — millions of colors 
on external as well as internal displays. All the new G3 
portables come vith a built-in VGA connector, for hook- 
ing up an external monitor; systems containing 13.3- or 
14.1 -inch displays also come with an S-Video-out port, 
which can be used for output to a television, camcorder, or 
VCR. The built-in graphics controller is based on tlie ATI 
3D RAGE LT chip, which provides both 2-D and 3-D 
acceleration. 

Storage A 2 Ox CD-ROM drive is standard equip- 
ment — unless you want to fork over a few hundred bucks 
extra for a DVD-ROM drive instead. On the hard-disk 
front, you can select a 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB EIDE drive. 
Curiously, a floppy-disk drive is optional, but you’d be ill- 
advised to leave it out. And as for a removable Zip drive, 
Apple won’t offer one, although it’s a good bet VST Tech- 
nologies (978/635-8200, www.vsttech.com) will. 

Batteries All PowerBook G3 notebooks come with 
one lithium-ion battery, which Apple claims is good for up 



to 3.5 hours of normal use, although our preliminary tests 
indicate that this may be a bit optimistic. Just in case, you 
might want to pick up a second power pack. The new mobile 
Macs have two removable-storage bays, one on each side of 
the unit. The left bay can hold a battery or any 3.5-inch 
device. The right bay can also hold a battery or any 3.5- or 
5.25-inch device. So for those long flights, you can stash the 
storage devices in your luggage and pop in a pair of batter- 
ies to double your running time. 

Communications All PowerBook G3 machines 
have — finally! — built-in lOBaseT Ethernet. A 56-Kbps 
modem is optional and fits in a special internal slot. You 
can add other high-speed network adapters by using the 
PC Card slots, which are finally CardBus-compliant. 
(CardBus is a faster version of the PC Card standard.) 

What's Missing There are a couple of items Apple 
won’t offer as options but should have. First is the ability to 
include an external mouse, keyboard, and monitor in a Pow- 
erBook G3 configuration. Sure, you can order them sepa- 
rately, but Apple should have made these add-ons part of 
the standard list of options. 

Second is bundled software. This was one advantage 
Mac clone makers offered — and that PC vendors still do. 
In particular, it’s nuts not to let customers order a system 
with Virtual PC preinstalled. Apple’s excuse: it didn’t know 
if customers would want DOS, Windows 95, or NT. But 
isn’t letting buyers decide for themselves the whole point 
of a build-to-order program? 



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Inside the PowerBook G3 



A 12.1-, 13. 3-, or 14.1 -inch display. 
Passive-matrix display (12.1 
inches) provides 800-by-600- 
pixel resolution at up to 16 bits 
per pixel. Active-matrix displays 
(13.3 or 14.1 inches) provide 
l,024-by-768-pixel resolution at 
up to 24 bits per pixel. 

B Stereo speakers. Note that the 
subwoofer hump made infamous 
by the 3400 is gone. 

C Speaker mute button. Nice touch. 

D PC Card bay. Supports two Type 
11 cards or one Type III card; 
CardBus-compliant, so you can 



add a second graphics-display 
adapter, a digital-video-capture 
card, or an ISDN adapter. 

E Software-controlled PC Card 
eject buttons. 

F Optional preinstalled 56-Kbps 
modem card. 

G Modem port (on the side, not 
visible). 

H Hot-swappable 3.5-inch expan- 
sion bay. Supports battery or 
floppy drive, 3.5-inch hard drive, 
or Zip drive. Comes with 49-whr 
lithium-ion battery, shown here. 



I Hot-swappable 5.25-inch expan 
sion bay. Supports battery, 3.5- 
inch devices, CD-ROM drive, 
DVD-ROM drive, or PCI expan- 
sion adapter. Comes with 20X 
CD-ROM (shown here) or DVD- 
ROM drive. 

J PowerPC G3 processor, running 
at 233MHz, 250MHz, or 
292MHz. 

K 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB EIDE hard 
drive. 

L Secondary SO DIMM RAM- 
expansion slot. Primary RAM- 
exponsion slot, which contains 



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preinstalled SDRAM card, is on 
the underside of the processor 
daughtercard. 

M Upgradable processor 
daughtercard. 

N Power on/shutdown key. Note 
that it's up off the keyboard 
instead of perilously close to 
the delete key. Perhaps some- 
one's listening after all. 

O Brightness control. 



P Eject levers for expansion-bay 
devices. 



Q Volume control 





WITH BUILT-IN ETHERNET ON ALL MODELS AND AN OPTION- 
al 292MHz processor, built-in modem, up to 192MB of 
RAM, and an 8GB hard drive, the configuration options 
for the new PowerBook G3 notebooks are so flexible 
that you may never need to get inside one. But you can't 
always predict what your computing needs will be one or 
two years down the line, or what new upgrade options 
might be available. And you can't always afford the sys- 
tem you wish you could buy today. 

So the day may come when you want to upgrade 
your processor, add more RAM, or Increase your hard- 
drive capacity. Apple has traditionally been reluctant to 
make upgrading a PowerBook (with the notable excep- 
tion of the 1400) an easy task. So you'll be happy to 
learn that the insides of the new G3 portables are more 
accessible than those of any other PowerBooks the com- 
pany has ever built. 

REACHING INSIDE 

Getting at a G3's guts, a three-step process, is a snap. (1) A 
slight tug on the flip-out levers on the front of the unit 
ejects whatever devices you have in the expansion bays. 
(2) Reaching inside the expansion bays and sliding back 
a pair of spring-loaded tabs releases the keyboard, which 
you can then lift out. (3) Removing two Phillips-head 
screws releases the heat sink, which easily lifts out — It 
even has a convenient handle. 

Once the heat sink is out of the way, you have access 
to the processor daughtercard and to the hard drive. The 
daughtercard is removable and upgradable — at least in 
theory: Apple's not promising any future upgrades, but 
third parties will likely provide some as faster processors 
become available. The daughtercard contains two RAM 
slots, one of which can be accessed without removal of 
the card Itself. The hard drive is held in place by a single 
flat-head screw. Even the built-in modem-card slot is 
accessible, although Apple hadn’t decided as of press time 
if it will offer the 56-Kbps modem separately. 



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ALIEN INFLUENCES 

Beyond the basics, Apple has thrown in some elegant 
touches that make tliese notebooks a pleasure to use. 

Keyboard For the first time, PowerBooks have full 
105-key capability. No, the keyboard isn’t really that big. 
But a new “function” key (labeled “fh”) in the lower left 
comer of the keyboard lets you access an alternative set 
of functions for many of the keys (see the sidebar “More 
than Meets the Eye”). 

Easy Access The PowerBook G3 offers the easi- 
est internal access of any PowerBook ever shipped (see 
the sidebar “Alien Autopsy”). Around back, Apple has 
duplicated the port labels on the inside of the protective 
cover, so when you’re leaning over the PowerBook from 
the front, you can see what’s what. Plus, Apple promises 
that this time the port cover ideally won’t snap off. 

Ergonomics The new keyboard has a very soft 
touch, and it’s quiet. But the placement of the touchpad 
and “mouse” button leave a bit to be desired. It’s a huge 
stretch to get to them from the keyboard. Another nag- 
ging detail: you may not like the feel of the handrest; 
there’s a slight lip around its edge that can be a bit 
annoying as your palms slide over it. 



FASTER THAN LIGHT 

Let’s just put it right out there: Apple’s new portables are 
screamers. To compare the new PowerBooks with pre- 
\ious Mac notebooks and with desktop Macs, Macworld 
Lab ran both SpeedMark 1.0, an application-based test 
that measures overall system performance, and Mac- 
Bench 4.0, a subsystem-level test that isolates the perfor- 
mance of the processor, disk, and graphics subsystems. 
What we found was litde short of amazing. 

At the high end, the new G3 PowerBook outfitted 
with a 292MHz processor was 26 percent faster on the 
SpeedMark test than the old top-of-the-line 250AIHz G3 
PowerBook. Even the new 250MHz Pow^erBook G3 
show^ed an improvement over its predecessor: an 1 1 per- 
cent SpeedMark gain. 

Even more astonishing, though, were the gains in 
the midrange and at the low end of die PowerBook line. 
The new 250MHz PowerBook G3 was ovei^ twice as fast 
on our SpeedMark test as the previous midrange model, 
the Pow'erBook 3400c/240. The low end saw a still more 
impressive gain: the new Pow'erBook G3 with a 233AIHz 
processor was over two and a half times as fast on the 
SpeedMark test as Apple’s pre\dous low^-end PowerBook, 



MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE 

THE NEW POWERBOOK G3 NOTE- users access to special functions for The keys outlined in , in 

books offer— finally!-the full func- many of the G3 keyboard's keys. conjunction with the fn key, can be 

tionality of a 1 05-key extended key- The F5 and F7 through F 1 1 keys used as a numeric keypad, 

board, complete with an invert- (outlined in ) double as num And the directional-arrow keys 

ed-T set of arrow keys. lock, insert, forward delete, scroll (outlined in i i ) also provide the 

The new fn, or function, key lock, print screen, and pause, page up, page down, home, and 

(lower left, outlined in yellow) gives respectively. end functions. 




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WHEN NOTEBOOKS COLLIDE: 

PowerBooks versus pc Portables 



APPLE'S WEB SITE FOR BUILD-TO-ORDER POWERBOOK 

G3's, store.applexom, will present several standard 

configurations you can customize to suit your needs — 

and your budget. Macworld has created three custom 
configurations that fit the requirements of a broad 
range of users. For comparison, we've priced similar- 
ly configured Pentium-based Solo notebooks from 
Gateway 20CX). 

Our least-expensive PC setup is similar to 
Apple's $2,299 baseline G3 configuration. In Its zeal 
to approach the $2,000 mark, however, Apple chose 
not to endow its bottom-line setup with a floppy-disk 



drive, a move we consider ill advised. So our low-end 
configuration includes one. 

Our second G3 configuration is outfitted for 
users who shuttle work between office and home or 
who are often on the road visiting clients. It is a no- 
compromise, fully equipped model whose speed and 
power rival those of many desktop systems. 

On the high end, we've configured a PowerBook 
G3 for graphics professionals who need a top-per- 
formlng system but who don't like to be tied down to 
the studio. Accordingly, we've added an external 
mouse, a keyboard, and a 17-Inch monitor. This con- 
figuration will also work well for CEOs who want to 
make an impression both In the executive suite and in 
the flrst-dass cabin. 



PowerBook 03 (entiy-ievei configuration) Gateway Solo 2300 SE 



Processor 


233MHz C3 


266MHz Pentium with MMX 


RAM 


16MB 


16MB 


Display 


12,1 -inch SVGA passive-matrix with 2MB VRAM 


12.1-inch SVGA passive-matrix with 2MB VRAM 


Hard drive 


2GB EIDE 


2GB Ultra ATA 


Ethernet 


lOBaseT built in 


lOBaseT added via PC Card 


Operating system 


Mac os 8.1 


Windows 95 


Other 


indudes built-in SCSI port. 16-bit stereo sound in/out. 
built-in stereo speakers 


indudes built-in USB port 


Total cost 


$2,379 (indudes $80 for floppy-disk drive)* 


$2,399 




PowerBook G3 (midrange configuration) 


Gateway Solo 2300 XL 


Processor 


250MHz G3 with 1MB backside cache 


266MHz Pentium with MAAX 


RAM 


32MB 


32MB 


Display 


13.3 -Inch XGA active-matrix with 4MB VRAM 


13.3-inch XGA active-matrix with 2MB VRAM 


Hard drive 


4GB EIDE 


4GB UltraATA 


Ethernet 


lOBaseT built in 


lOBaseT added via PC Card 


AAodem 


56-Kbps internal modem 


56-Kbps modem added via PC Card 


Operating system 


Mac OS 8.1 


Windows 95 


Other 


indudes built-in SCSI port 16-bit stereo sound in/out, 
built-in stereo speakers 


indudes built-in USB port, external speakers, 
MS (Dffice SBE 


Total cost 


$3,899* 


$3,379 




PowerBook G3 (high-end configuration) 


Gateway Solo 9100 XL 


Processor 


292MHz G3 with 1MB backside cache 


266MHz Pentium II 


RAM 


64MB 


64MB 


Display 


14.1 -inch XGA active-matrix with 4MB VRAM 


14.1 -Inch XGA active-matrix with 4MB VRAM 


Hard drive 


8GB EIDE 


8GB Ultra ATA 


Ethernet 


lOBaseT built in 


on combo PC Card 


Modem 


56-Kbps internal modem 


on combo PC Card 


External 17-inch monitor 


Apple Multiple Scan 720 Display ($649* *) 


Vhritron 700 


Keyboard and mouse 


Apple extended keyboard and mouse ($148* *) 


Microsoft Natural keyboard, PS/2 mouse 


Operating system 


Mac OS 8.1 


Windows NT Workstation 4.0 


Other 


indudes built-in SCSI port, 16-blt stereo sound In/out, 
built-in stereo speakers 


indudes built-in USB port, external speakers, 
MS Office SBE. MS Bookshelf 


Total cost 


$6,396* 


$5,648 



All system configurations include a 1.44MB floppy-disk drive and a 20 k CD-ROM drive. * Based on preliminary Apple pricing. * • Prices from Apple Store. 




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the 1400c/166. All in all, it’s probably the most remark- 
able speed boost in the history of the PowerBook line. 

Obviously, with speed gains such as these, Power- 
Books have come a long way toward catching up with 
desktop Macs. But not all the way. On the SpeedMark 
test, the 292MHz PowerBook G3 we tested was 17 per- 
cent slower than Apple’s new 300MHz Power Macintosh 
G3 desktop system, the 250MHz G3 PowerBook was 
14 percent slower than a 266MHz PowerMac G3, and the 
new 233MHz G3 portable was 28 percent slower than 
the 233MHz G3 desktop. 

These discrepancies appear to be a result of the weak- 
er disk and graphics performance typical of portable sys- 
tems. Also bear in mind that the preproduction units we 
tested hadn’t yet been optimized for performance. Apple 
may be able.to get the new PowerBook G3 systems running 
even closer to desktop speeds by the time they ship. 

WHAT PRICE POWER(BOOK)? 

Eventually it comes down to the bottom line: What’s it 
gonna cost you? That, of course, depends on how you 
decide you want your PowerBook set up. More than a 
thousand different configurations will be available on 
Apple’s build-to-order Web site. Prices will start at 
S2,299 and max out at well over $6,000. 



The PowerBook G3 is deeper and wider than previous models, 
but is only 2 inches thick when closed. 

We’ve chosen three configurations to present in the 
sidebar “When Notebooks Collide: PowerBooks versus 
PC Portables.” For comparison with PCs — after all, 
they’re what everyone compares PowerBooks with — we 
priced similarly configured Gateway Solo PCs. Wliat we 
found varied, depending on where on the price spectrum 
we were looking. 

At the low end, we were able to find budget PC note- 
books from companies such as Micron for as little as 
$1,399. Apple has nothing to compare with these bargain- 
basement machines. But of course, the PCs you can buy 
at these prices are yesterday’s systems. 



In the $2,000 range, a PowerBook G3 and a Gateway 
Solo 2300 SE configured similarly cost almost exactly the 
same. A little higher up the ladder, in the $3,500-to- 
$4,000 range, a Gateway Solo 2300 XL could be had for 
around $500 less than a similarly configured PowerBook 
G3. And at the high end, we found that you can save 
upwards of $700 by buying a fully tricked-out PC note- 
book rather than a PowerBook G3. 

But — and this is a big but — these comparisons con- 
sider configuration and price only, not bang for the buck. 
Although Macworld Lab has not yet tested the G3 Power- 
Books against PC notebooks, in prior cross-platform 
shootouts, G3 systems have generally outperformed Pen- 
tium-based systems by a significant margin. 

THE INVASION BEGINS 

If you’re in the market for a new desktop Mac, you might 
want to take a step back before you make your next pur- 
chase. As we’ve shown, the new PowerBook G3 portables 
are a damned good argument for choosing the mobile 
alternative. Still, there are some things you’ll want to 
consider before you make the switch. 

• Notebooks are notoriously bad ergonomically. If the 
keyboard’s at the right height for your hands, the screen’s 
too low. If the screen’s at the right height for viewing, the 
keyboard’s too high. If you’re going to use a PowerBook 
as your main computer, you’ll want at least an external 
keyboard and mouse. 

• PowerBooks can’t be docked. Although some PC 
vendors have done impressive work in this regard, Apple’s 
never really handled the docking problem very well in its 
all-in-one designs. 

• If you’re doing color-critical work, you’ll want an 
external monitor. You can’t accurately color-correct an 
image on a notebook display wLose hues shift noticeably 
every time you move your head. And even if color isn’t 
that important to you, you still might want an external 
monitor: although the 13.3- and I4.1-inch displays’ 
l,024-by-768-pixel resolution is positively huge for a 
portable, the dots that make up images on these screens 
are correspondingly smaller, making images harder to 
read. And, if you need something with even greater reso- 
lution, an external monitor is really your only choice. 

THE LAST WORD 

With its new PowerBook G3 line, Apple has a definite 
winner. One might argue that these are the most exciting 
systems Aj:>ple has brought to market in years. 

So if you walk into work tomorrow and notice that 
some Macs are missing, don’t assume it’s an alien or, 
worse, a Wintel invasion. Instead, start plotting how to 
convince your boss you should be next in line for a Power- 
Book G3 conversion, m 



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INTERNET ESSENTIALS 



Supercharge 

Your 
Browser 



NINE TECHNIQUES 
THAT UNLEASH 
THE POWER OF 
NAVIGATOR AND 
INTERNET EXPLORER 



DRIP. DRIP. DRIP. That’s the sound of the World Wide Web 
trickling into your Mac. Even if you’ve got a relatively fast con- 
nection, waiting for the Web can feel less like zooming through 
the Information Age than like enduring Chinese water torture. 

You can’t unjam the Internet, but you can make sure you 
don’t lose another second on your end. We’ve assembled nine 
great remedies for using the two most popular browsers — 
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator — to tame 
the World Wide Wait. From setting up your browser the way 
you like it to downloading frequendy read pages automatically, 
we show you the best ways to turn yourself and your browser into 
a lean, mean surfing machine. 

BY CAMERON CROTTY 



Built for Comfort 

When you move into a new office, the first 
thing you do is put up pictures and arrange 
your file drawers the way you like them. 
V\nien you buy a new computer, you fiddle 
with the desktop pattern and arrange your 
hard disk. Why should your Web brows- 
er be any different? The first principle of 
Better Browsing is: customize. 

I Sweat the Small Stuff 

You’d be amazed at how many 
Web veterans never configure their 
browsers and then waste lots of dme deal- 
ing with the consequences. Take a minute 
or so to set up your browser to suit the 
way you surf, and you’ll expend less ener- 
gy getting where you want to go. 

If you’re really not interested in the 
latest news from Micro.soft or Netscape, 
for instance, why should that be the first 
thing you see when you go online? 
Instead, choose as your home page a site 
you visit frequently. Actually, you don’t 
need to load a page on start-up at all; con- 



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sider launching your browser widi a blank 
page, particularly if you have a slow con- 
nection to the Web. If you like die idea of 
having a start-up page but don’t want to 
wait for it to download from the Net, con- 
sider building a simple page of links and 
keeping it on your hard disk, where your 
hrow'ser can access it quickly. 

Both Navigator and E.xplorer keep 
their home-page settings under Prefer- 
ences in the Edit menu. If you’re using 
Navigator, the Navigator screen in Pref- 
erences is where you enter a home-page 
URL, choose to start widi a blank page, or 
specify a local file. If you’re using Explor- 
er, you’ll find these settings under Web 
Browser: Home/Search in Preferences. 

Keep Your Browser in Its Place 

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer/ 
Outlook Express software combo and 
Netscape’s Communicator let you do 
I everything from browsing to download- 
I ing files to reading newsgroups. Both 
5 suites rely on Internet Config, a shared set 



of Internet preferences, to let you use 
your own Internet utilities — a process 
called remapping. For example, you could 
use Fetch or NetFinder for FTP file 
downloads rather than the FIT utility 
built into each suite. 

Internet Explorer 4.0 shields you from 
the guts of Internet Config by letting you 
choose your desired applications from 
within Explorer — just pop open Prefer- 
ences and click on Protocol Helpers (under 
Network). Netsc'ape fans aren’t as lucky; a 
bug in die current version (4.04. 1 ) of Com- 
municator prevents remapping from w ork- 
ing, although the stand-alone version of 
Navigator works fine. 

Because Netscape doesn’t provide a 
remapping interface in either Navigator 
or Communicator, you have to make any 
changes in Internet Config. Launch the 
application (it’s in the Communicator 
folder), and click on the Helpers button; 
from the dialog box that appears, choose 
a protocol and click on the Change but- 
ton to select a different application. 



Beef Up Your Bookmarks 

A disorganized bookmark list 
that scrolls right off the bottom of your 
screen is a huge time waster. After all, 
w hat’s the point of bookmarking a site if 
ferreting it out from the rest of your 
bookmarks takes just as long as finding it 
on the Web? Happily, both Internet 
Explorer and Navigator offer some cool 
features for taming your bookmarks. 

Explorer calls its bookmarks menu 
Favorites, but the mdy favored links live 
in the Favorites Bar, just above the main 
brow'ser w indow. You can customize the 
Favorites Bar by dragging links directly 
onto the bar or into the Toolbar Favorites 
folder in the Favorites menu. Or drag a 
folder from the Favorites menu to the 
Favorites Bar — now' one click opens a 
windowful of links. 

Netscape Navigator’s approach to 
bookmarks is still on the clumsy side, but 
two tricks help bring some method to the 
madness. First, you can designate a fold- 
er in die BookmarLs file to catch new links 





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SUPERCHARGE YOUR BROWSER 



as you add them. Second, tell Navigator 
to display in the Bookmarks menu the 
contents of any folder from the Book- 
marks file. The default setting — the root 
Folder — displays all the folders and their 
contents in a hierarchical menu; choos- 
ing a folder farther down in the hierarchy 
gives you finer control over which sites 
appear in the menu. For instance, if you 
create a folder that contains only your 
most frequendy accessed links, and then 
designate that folder as the Bookmarks 
Menu folder (open the Bookmarks win- 
dow, select the folder, and choose Set as 
Bookmarks Menu Folder from the \^ew 
menu), only the links in that folder will 
show up in your Bookmarks menu. 

Stripped for Speed 

Waiting for your browser to chew 
through data you don’t want gets you 
nowhere fast, and these days Web pages 
are packed with huge graphics, audio files, 
and video clips. Our next set of tips will 
help you get just the data you need, as effi- 
ciently as possible. 



AAanage Your Media 

Trying to fit all those graphic and 
audio fireworks through a tiny modem is 
like trying to stuff an elephant through a 
soda straw. The biggest instant speed 
boost you can give your browser is to turn 
it all off. In Navigator, open Preferences, 
click on Advanced, and uncheck the Auto- 
matically Load Images box. In Explorer, 
open Preferences and, from the Web 
Content screen, uncheck the boxes in the 
upper half of the Page Content box. 

If you’re worried about what you’re 
missing or if you visit a site that depends 
heavily on graphics for navigation, you 
can load the graphics either globally (in 
Navigator, click on the Images button; in 
Explorer, choose Load Images from the 
View menu) or individually, by clicking on 
tlie graphic’s placeholder icon. 

5 Hold the Java 

Although Java applets aren’t as 
common (yet) as bloated graphics, they’re 
just as big a time w^aster. Whenever you hit 
a page with a Java applet, you can expect up 



to a minute of downtime w hile your brows- 
er starts up Java and pla}^ the applet — like- 
ly a scrolling-text marquee. In Explorer, you 
can disable Java by unchecking the Enable 
Java box in Preferences’ Java screen; in 
Navigator, uncheck the Enable Java box 
in Preferences’ Advanced screen. (Don’t 
turn off JavaScript, which adds little or no 
overhead to your brow^sing experience.) 

6 Cache In 

Whenever you download a Web 
page, your browser saves a copy of it in a 
special folder, called a cache, on your hard 
disk. The next time you visit that page, 
your brow'ser tries to save time by load- 
ing it from the cache. 

In these days of gigabyte hard drives, 
increasing your cache size and giving your 
browser more space to squirrel away 
pages is a cheap way to streamline your 
browsing sessions. Both Explorer and 
Navigator keep their cache settings in the 
Preferences dialog box. If you can afford 
the disk space, try doubling your cache 
size and see if your browsing speeds up. 




Does Your Browser Need Help? 



ALTHOUGH MICROSOFT AND NETSCAPE HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB OF 
making their Internet-connection suites one-stop shops, there's an 
ocean of software you can add to your browser in the form of third- 
party helper applications and plug-ins. Our advice? Keep it simple. 



Plug-ins, in particular, come 
at a price: they place a greater 
burden on an already thin data 
stream. The code built into both 
Internet Explorer and Navigator 
can handle most of the common 
files you’re likely to encounter 
while you surf. Additionally, both 
include Apple's QuickTime plug- 
in, which can play nearly any 
multimedia file you're likely to 
run across. The only plug-ins we 
consider essential to well-round- 
ed browsing are Progressive Net- 
works’ Real Audio (free; 206/ 
447-0567, www.realaudio.com), 
for streaming audio, and Macro- 
media's Shockwave (free; 415/ 
252-2000, www.macromedia 
.com), for animation. 



While plug-ins display data 
as part of the browsing experi- 
ence, helper applications launch 
separately when the browser 
encounters a file It can't handle 
by Itself. As with plug-ins, 
though, Netscape and Microsoft 
have each expanded the applica- 
tions suite that accompanies their 
browser to the point that it's 
almost possible to get by without 
any other software. We recom- 
mend accessorizing your Internet 
suite with just two extras: 
Aladdin Systems’ Stuffit Deluxe 
($129.95; 408/761 -62(X), www 
.aladdinsys.com) and Adobe's 
Acrobat Reader (free; 408/536- 
6(XX), www.adobe.com). 

Both Microsoft and Netscape 



bundle Stuffit Expander with their 
suites, but that software's engine 
isn't PowerPC- native, and decom- 
pression speed suffers noticeably 
as a result. And Stuffit Expander 
can’t compress or encode files for 
Internet transmission, still a neces- 
sity these days. Stuffit Deluxe, on 
the other hand, can compress and 
encode files in multiple formats, is 
PowerPC-native, and includes 
many other useful utilities for 
organizing and archiving your files 
(see Reviews, May 1998). If its 
price tag seems a bit steep, at 
least consider upgrading to 
Aladdin's DropStuff with Expander 
Enhancer — It offers compression 
capabilities, greater choice of file 
type (particularly the ubiquitous 
.zip file format), and a PowerPC- 
native engine. 

We make our second recom- 
mendation — Adobe’s Acrobat 
Reader — somewhat reluctantly, 
given the widespread aversion to 
Adobe's PDF (Portable Document 
Format). Acrobat Reader is tech- 



nically a plug-in, but we classify It 
as a helper application because 
you can launch it separately. It’s 
not particularly fast; it's some- 
thing of a memory hog; and quite 
frankly, we'd rather just see the 
information in nice, clean HTML. 

Nevertheless, due to the 
ease of creating PDF documents 
and the control it offers over for- 
matting, PDF has become the 
format of choice for people who 
want to post large quantities of 
data, such as documentation. If 
you're a frequent surfer, you're 
almost guaranteed to run across 
a PDF document you absolutely 
need to read. With that in mind, 
we recommend that you down- 
load and install Acrobat Reader 
so that you'll have it available 
when you need it. 

Using helper applications or 
plug-ins is a matter of personal 
choice. Simply consider how much 
overhead — in both data and time 
— you’re adding before you install 
every option you can find. 



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The Lean Menu, Please To trim down an endless bookmarks list in 
Navigator, select a folder containing the choicest sites; only those sites 
will appear when you pull down the Bookmarks menu. 




Sites While U Wait Subscribing to a page is the first step toward 
having Internet Explorer automatically deliver pages to your desktop. 



If you’re using Netscape Navigator 
and looking for a real turbocharge, create 
a RAM disk (open your Memory control 
panel and turn RAM Disk on) and put your 
cache folder on it by changing the folder’s 
location in Preferences’ Advanced screen 
under Cache. If you want more speed but 
don’t have the extra memory for a RAM 
disk, consider Surf Express from Connec- 
tix (see Reviews, May 1998); it replaces your 
browser’s caching mechanism with a much 
more efficient one. 

7 Let Your Browser Do the Walking 

Save yourself connection charges 
and open up your phone line for incoming 
calls: surf offline! Both Internet Explorer 
4.0 and Navigator 4.0 support offline 



browsing, in that they check 
the cache first for a request- 
ed page, connecting only if 
it’s necessary to download 
the page. 

Internet Explorer 4.0 
takes offline browsing a 
step further with Subscrip- 
tions. If you “subscribe” to 
a page on your Favorites 
list. Explorer not only noti- 
fies you when that page has 
been updated but also auto- 
matically downloads the 
page in the background so 
you can look at it later. 

To subscribe to a page, 
open the Favorites window, 
select the desired page, and 
choose Get Info from the 
File menu. To have Explor- 
er automatically download 
the page, click on the Off- 
line tab and fill in the details. 
If you want Explorer to 
download multiple pages or 
even an entire site, just click 
on the Options button in 
the Offline tab and check 
the Download Links box to 
choose how much of the site 
you want to collect. 

In Navigator, you can 
choose the What’s New? 
command from the View 
menu (with the Bookmarks 
window open) to see if 
pages have been updated, 
but you’ll have to download 
them manually. You can 
also use a utiUty like Data- 
viz’s Web Buddy ($39.95; 
203/268-0030, www.dataviz.com) or Blue 
Squirrel’s WebWliacker ($49.95; 801/ 
523-1063, www.webwhacker.com) to 
download Web pages automatically. 

No Wasted Motion 

No matter how well tuned your browsing 
software is, you’ll still spin your wheels if 
you don’t know how to surf efficiently. If 
you know where to look, you can mini- 
mize browser downtime and increase your 
chances of finding exactly what you’re 
looking for. 

8 Divide and Conquer 

If you open only a single brows- 
er window during a surfing session, you’re 
working witli one band tied behind your 



back. Whenever you click on a link, con- 
sider opening it up in a new window by 
bolding down the mouse button for a sec- 
ond or two and selecting from tbe con- 
textual menu that pops up (in Explorer, 
you can simply §€-click on the link). You 
can then go back to reading die previous 
page while you wait for the new page to 
finish downloading. 

This technique is particularly handy 
when you’re using a search engine. 
(Explorer performs this two-window feat 
for you if you use the Search tab on the 
Explorer Bar.) Wiile a fink is opening in 
another window, you can scan your search 
list for other likely candidates. That way, 
if your first choice turns out to be a dog, 
you don’t have to reload the search results 
to try again. 

Search Carefully 

You might get lucky when using 
one of the big search engines; then again, 
you might not. Do a little intelligent 
research before you blindly cast forth a 
query. A newsgroup FAQ (you’ll find a 
list of FAQs at www.cis.ohio-state.edu/ 
hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html) will usual- 
ly point you to prime information sites, if 
not answer your question outright. 

It also helps to learn about Boolean 
logic, the lingo of search engines. The 
good news is, if you’ve ever ordered a ham- 
burger with cheese AND onions but NOT 
pickles OR lettuce, you already speak all 
the Boolean you’re likely to need. (For 
more information on Boolean operators, 
see “Better, Faster Web Searching,” Net- 
S?nai% December 1996; http://macworld 
.zdnet.com/pages_collection/december 
.96/Column.2 893.html.) For a more thor- 
ough tutorial on searching, see www 
.askscott.com/tindex.html. 

The Last Word 

Even though modem speeds will contin- 
ue to grow, so will the Web — and it 
already contains more data than you could 
see in five lifetimes. Now is as good a time 
as any to learn how to get what you need 
quickly. Making the most out of your 
Web connection takes some forethought, 
but a little time spent preparing to go 
online will help you squeeze the useful 
information from the Web — without 
putting yourself through the wringer, m 

CAMERON CROTTY (everyman@vy/enet.net) has 
written about computers and telecommunications 
since 300-baud modems were state-of-the-art. 




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EXPERT CUlOE 



INTERNET ESSENTIALS 



EXPERT ADVICE 
TO MAKE YOU 
MASTER OF 
YOUR MAILBOX 



Tame 

Your 

E-Mail 



FORGET THE WEB. That may be where the Internet gets its sex 



appeal, but the Net’s heart and soul is e-mail. More than fax, 
phone, or postal mail, e-mail has become the preferred method 
of communication — whether you’re making important business 
decisions or just staying in touch with far-flung family members. 

But for every minute you save by using e-mail, you can easily 
waste several more just dealing with the deluge of messages you 
receive. If your e-mail program’s in-box contains thousands of 
messages, you know what we mean. 



BY ADAM C. ENGST 



It doesn’t have to be this way. If you 
follow the tips and strategies we’ve assem- 
bled, you can make your e-mail work for 
you, instead of spending all your time try- 
ing to keep one step ahead of the flood. 

Here we primarily focus on popular 
Internet e-mail programs such as Qual- 
comm’s (www.eudora.com) free Eudora 
Light 3.1.3 and $39 Eudora Pro 4.0, 
Apple’s (www.apple.com) $49 Emailer 
2.0v3, Netscape’s (www.netscape.com) 
free Messenger 4.04.1, Microsoft’s 
(www.microsoft.com) free Outlook 
Express 4.0, and CE Software’s (www 
.cesoft.com) $70 QuickMail Pro 1.5.2. 
(For Macworld's capsule reviews of all 
these products, see the sidebar “Mas- 
terful Mailers.”) 

But even if you’re using a proprietary 
LAN mail program or a commercial online 
service, you should be able to use these 
strategies to help you master your in-box. 



76 June 1998 AAACWORLD 





Make E-mail History 

In the days before e-mail, your desk was 
probably littered with scraps of paper 
holding directions to friends’ houses, 
minutes from a meeting that took place 
the day you were sick, and more. Now 
many of these communications take place 
in e-mail — a medium much better suited 
for storage and retrieval. 

Be a Pack Rat Keep all your old 
e-mail at your fingertips by saving almost 
evei-ything you receive. Even if there’s 
only a small chance that you might want 
to read a message again, save it so you 
can find it later. 

r Any good e-mail program will search 
I hundreds or even thousands of messages 
g almost instantaneously. Some also offer 
^ methods of quickly selecting groups of 
i messages without making you resort to 
I a Find feature. For example, in a mailbox 
i in Eudora Pro, you can option-click on 



the sender of a message to select all mes- 
sages in that mailbox sent by diat person. 
In Outlook Express, entering text in the 
Display Subjects Containing box limits 
the messages shown to the ones having 
that text in the subject field. 

I fly into La Guardia Airport in New 
York City about once each year. Instead 
of calling and asking for the complicat- 
ed directions to my grandparents’ house 
each time, I just print the e-mail message 
my uncle sent me four years ago. 

Make Mailboxes Just keeping 
thousands of old messages in your in- 
mailbox (or -folder, depending on which 
program you use) isn’t enough. You 
should be more organized than that. 
After all, do you keep all the files on your 
hard disk out on your desktop? 

Wflienever you receive several impor- 
tant messages on the same topic, create a 
mailbox specifically for them. I organize 



my mailbo.xes to suit how I’m likely to 
specific messages. As a result, my 
most important mailboxes hold mail from 
specific people, usually my closest col- 
leagues, and I have a more general mailbox 
that holds personal mail from close fnends 
and family, whatever the topic. 

I also create mailboxes devoted to 
specific projects, so I can quickly and 
easily refer just to messages relevant to 
those projects. In such situations, I nest 
mailboxes inside each other. Of all 
the mail programs we looked at for this 
article, only QuickMail Pro doesn’t sup- 
port hierarchical mailbo.xes. 

Similarly, I keep a mailbox for every 
mailing list to which I subscribe. As a 
final catchall, you’ll probably want to 
create mailboxes for hard-to-categorize 
messages. 

Taking Work Home If you check the 
same mail account from both work and 



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home, you must designate one location as 
the “master” location and do all your fil- 
ing at that location, or you risk having an 
incomplete record of your e-mail. 

For example, if you want your com- 
puter at work to be the master location, 
set the preferences of the mail program 
you use at home to leave mail on the serv- 
er. (Every program we looked at offers 
this option.) Set the work mail program to 



delete messages from the server. This way, 
your master program will always have the 
most complete set of e-mail. 

Record Conversations While it’s easy 
to be concerned about cleaning up mail 
that comes in, most people never consider 
what happens to mail they send out. 

Think about it: your outgoing mes- 
sages record everything you say in e-mail 
and are an invaluable resource when mis- 



communications occur or when someone 
claims you said sometliing you didn’t. All 
the e-mail programs we looked at can save 
outgoing messages automatically. Make 
sure yours is set to do so. 

Long-term Storage Sooner or later 
you’ll have too many messages in a mail- 
box. But above all else, resist the tempta- 
tion to delete messages when you need to 
recover disk space. You never know when 



Masterful Mailers 

IN THE PREHISTORIC DAYS OF E-MAIL, PEOPLE RARELY GOT TO CHOOSE 
which mail program to use: if your company used a QuickMail server, you 
used QuickMail; if your company used a Lotus Notes server, you were stuck 
with Notes. But as the world embraces Internet standards for e-mail, choices 
abound. We looked at six popular Internet e-mail programs and rated them 
based on strength of features and ease of use (see the table, “Speedy 



Delivery: Six Internet E-mail Pro- 
grams Compared"). We also fac- 
tored in support for new Internet 
standards such as IMAP (a new 
format for retrieving e-mail that's 
popular in large organizations), 
LDAP (a directory-services proto- 
col for looking up e-mail ad- 
dresses), and HTML mall (which 
enables styled text and graphics 
within e-mail messages). 

Emailer 2.0v3 Emaller, for- 
merly of Claris and now sold by 
Apple, offers some unique fea- 
tures: it is able not only to check 
Internet e-mail but also to send 
and receive mail via CompuServe 



and America Online. Emailer offers 
excellent filtering capabilities, sup- 
ports hierarchical mailboxes, and 
provides a convenient window that 
lists the results of your searches. 

However, Emailer doesn't let 
you send or receive styled text with 
HTML mail. And Emailer stores all 
messages in a single database file 
that can become corrupted, en- 
dangering all your saved mall. 

Eudora Light 3.1.3 Qual- 
comm's freeware Eudora Light 
may be the most popular Macin- 
tosh Internet e-mail program of all 
time. Although its power and flex- 
ibility pale in comparison with 



those of Eudora Pro, Eudora Light 
offers a basic set of features, 
including hierarchical mailboxes, 
and decent filters. These features 
all come in a package with the 
least-demanding system require- 
ments of any of the programs list- 
ed here, making Eudora Light Ideal 
for older Macs with little RAM. 

Eudora Pro 4.0 Where 
Eudora Light leaves off, Eudora 
Pro 4.0 picks up with a 
vengeance. Eudora Pro adds a 
more modern-looking interface 
with dockable windows, addition- 
al productivity-enhancing short- 
cuts such as a Group Subjects 
option that groups related mes- 
sages even when the mailbox is 
sorted by date or sender, the abil- 
ity to create filters quickly based 
on the current message (see the 
screen shot "Instant Filters"), 
many additional filter actions, and 
multiple nickname files. 

Eudora Pro 4.0 offers LDAP 
and HTML-mail support (support 



for IMAP is promised for version 
4.1). Eudora Pro’s primary failing 
is its Find feature, which, though 
speedy, has a confusing Interface 
and doesn't group found mes- 
sages into a results window. (For 
more on Eudora Pro 4.0, see 
Reviews, in this issue.) 

Netscape Messenger 4.04.1 
The Messenger module of Net- 
scape's free Communicator pack- 
age Is a solid e-mail client that lets 
you view your mall via either a 
one-pane approach or a series of 
individual windows. It offers ade- 
quate filter features and hierarchi- 
cal mailboxes, though Messenger 
is very slow when filing messages 
and its filters aren't as powerful as 
those in most other programs. 
Messenger offers extremely strong 
support for emerging Internet 
standards such as IMAP, LDAP, 
and HTML mail. 

Because Messenger is inte- 
grated with Netscape Communi- 
cator, you can easily switch from 



Speedy Delivery: Six internet E-mail Programs Compared 







Mouse 


List 




Search 


Filter 


Hierarchical 


HTML 


Company 


Product 


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you might need those messages; for 
instance, they could be instrumental in 
legal proceedings. 

Instead of deleting your old e-mail, 
move messages to dated mailboxes with 
descriptive names such as “Monica L. 
1996-1997.” If you’re hurting for disk 
space, store messages on a floppy or Zip 
disk. If you’ve built up a whole lot of mail, 
you can even burn it to a CD. 



Since I send more than 1,000 messages 
each month, I archive my sent mail every 
month, and once a year I archive messages 
in other mailboxes. The day Kenneth Starr 
comes to me asking about my role in 
Whitewater, I’ll be ready. 

Trash Carefully There’s nothing 
worse than that sinking feeling you get 
when you realize that not only did you 
move an important message to the trash 



but you’ve also set your e-mail program to 
purge your trash mailbox automatically. 
At that point, it’s too late. 

So whatever you do, don’t set your 
e-mail program to empty the trash when 
you quit. Disk space is cheap, and you may 
save 15 minutes of searching for an e-mail 
address by retrieving it from a deleted mes- 
sage in your trash mailbox. Once each 
month or so, I sort my trash mailbox by 




Lost and Found Outlook Express 4.0 can display all the messages that meet 
your search criteria in its mailbox-style Search Results window. 



reading e-mail to browsing Usenet 
newsgroups and the Web. But 
you pay for this integration: Com- 
municator takes up a lot of disk 
space and has large RAM require- 
ments, and its interface can be 
confusing. 

Outlook Express 4.0 De- 
spite the version number, Outlook 
Express is essentially a new prod- 
uct that comes with Microsoft's 
free Internet Explorer 4.0 Web 
browser. Like Netscape Messen- 
ger, Outlook Express offers news- 
group reading as well as support 
for IMAP, LDAP, and HTML mail. 
Among Outlook Express's best 
features are its background 
spelling checker that underlines 
misspelled words (but only If 
you've got Microsoft Office 98 
installed) and its capability to apply 
a temporary filter to a mailbox by 
letting you enter text in the Dis- 
play Subjects Containing box. 

Outlook Express sports pow- 
erful filters and an elegant Find 
interface, complete with a Search 



Results window listing all found 
messages (see the screen shot 
"Lost and Found"). But since it's a 
brand-new program, it's not with- 
out bugs and quirks. 

QuickMail Pro 1.5.2 Once 
a proprietary e-mail client, Quick- 
Mail moved to support Internet 
standards with QuIckMail Pro, 
which offers several unique fea- 
tures: if you option-click on a mes- 
sage summary, you get a quick pre- 
view of the message; 
the program lets you 
send messages on spe- 
cial graphical forms 
that can contain 
Images, check boxes, 
and user-defined 
fields; and It offers a 
scrolling mail ticker 
that displays the 
senders and subjects 
of Incoming messages. 

But many of 
QuIckMail Pro's 
bread-and-butter 
features are lacking. 



The program has cramped mes- 
sage windows, limited filtering fea- 
tures, and no hierarchical mailbox- 
es. QuIckMail Pro relies heavily on 
dialog boxes, making it difficult to 
move within the program without 
lots of mousing and clicking. 

On top of all that, QuIckMail 
Pro is the most expensive of any 
e-mail program reviewed here. As 



a result, we can't recommend it 
unless you're a die-hard fan of 
the original QuIckMail who wants 
the same interface in an Internet 
e-mail program. 

AAacworld's Buying Advice 

Which e-mail program is right for 
you depends on how much 
money you're willing to spend. 
The best value In an e-mail pro- 
gram is Microsoft's free Outlook 
Express 4.0, especially if you use 
Microsoft Office 98 and prefer 
Internet Explorer to Netscape 
Navigator. Though it's new and 
has some growing to do. Outlook 
Express offers a feature set com- 
parable to those of commercial 
packages. 

But for those who take their 
e-mail seriously and want the 
absolute best, Eudora Pro 4.0 is 
the answer. It's the most mature 
of the programs and has the most 
complete feature set. 




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date and delete the older half of the mes- 
sages to save the space and speed up my 
e-mail program. For those who don’t like 
to take out the trash at all, Emailer can be 
set to automatically delete trashed mes- 
sages after a set number of days. 

Running Mail through Filters 

One of the reasons why so many people 
don’t file important messages consistently 
is because they don’t realize how 
much of the work their e-mail 
programs can do for them by way 
of filtering. Most of the mail I 
receive is automatically moved 
into an appropriate mailbox by my 
e-mail program, thanks to filters 
I’ve created. 

What's a Filter? Most e-mail 
programs let you perform a vari- 
ety of actions on e-mail messages 
based on the messages’ contents. 

Since the most common use for 
these actions is to move messages 
to different mailboxes, the actions 
are usually called filters^ although 
some e-mail programs call them 
“rules” or “mail actions.” Some 
e-mail programs’ filters can ana- 
lyze only common header lines 
such as To, From, Date, and Priority, 
whereas others can analyze the messages 
themselves or even the gobbledygook 
headers most humans try to ignore. 

Most filters merely transfer messages 
to a mailbox or mark them in some way — 
which can be useful in itself — but the fil- 
ters can also be much more powerful. 
Some e-mail programs* filters let you open 
messages, display mailboxes with new mes- 
sages, play sounds, display alert dialogs, 
print messages, add addresses to your 
address book, reply with a canned message, 
forward or redirect messages to someone 
else, or even execute an AppleScript, all 
based on the contents of a given message. 

Of the programs we looked at, Eudo- 
ra Pro, Emailer, and Outlook E.xpress fea- 
ture the most filter criteria, methods of 
matching, and actions that filters can per- 
form. Netscape Messenger and Quick- 
Mail Pro can’t effectively filter spam (see 
the sidebar “Stamp Out Spam!”), because 
they don’t allow you to search for text in 
any of a message’s header lines. 

Filter Tricks Earlier I suggested that 
you transfer messages you receive from 
mailing lists from your in-box into their 
own mailboxes. The good news is that you 
don’t have to waste time doing this by 



hand if you set up a filter to do it for you. 

If you use Eudora Pro 4.0, the process 
is made even simpler by Eudora ’s Make Fil- 
ter feature, which analyzes a selected mes- 
sage and provides a point-and-click inter- 
face for creating a few common filter types. 

Ml messages from a specific mailing 
list will have some characteristic in com- 
mon that will let your filter catch the mes- 
sages and move them to their own mail- 



box. Look at several messages from a 
mailing list you’re on, and see w^hat they 
have in common. Look particularly at the 
header of the messages — those lines at the 
top that include To, From, Cc, Date, and 
Priority. One of them, usually To or 
From, will be the same in every message. 

Once you’ve found the common ele- 
ment, create a mailbox to hold the mes- 
sages and set your filter’s action to trans- 
fer all messages containing that element 
to that new mailbox. The next time you 
check your mail, your e-mail program will 
look for that pattern in every incoming 
message. If it finds a matching message, it 
will transfer that message to the mailbox 
you created so you don’t have to read the 
message until you’re ready. No more wad- 
ing through Word-of-the-Day postings 
when you need to read the e-mail that’s 
necessary to finish your real w^ork. 

Combating Spam 

Junk e-mail, also knowm as spam, is one 
of the banes of today’s Internet. It’s just 
like the junk postal mail you receive, 
although usually spam is sleazier. The 
main problem with spam is that its vol- 
ume threatens to drown out the impor- 
tant messages you receive. 



Can That Spam You’re probably ask- 
ing, “But w'hy can’t I just filter all the 
spam to the Trash?” Unfortunately, spam- 
mers go to great efforts to disguise their 
messages and to remove information that 
w^ould make the spam easy to filter. But 
never fear: you can employ counter-spam 
measures. Most spammers use the same 
programs for sending spam, and those 
programs leave telltale clues you can use 
to identify and eradicate bother- 
sf)me messages. (For a list of ways 
to detect and filter spam, see the 
sidebar “Stamp Out Spam!”) 

It’s all too easy to catch a 
legitimate piece of mail in a spam 
filter, so I don’t recommend fil- 
tering spam directly to the Trash 
unless you plan to check the 
Trash periodically. Instead, filter 
potential spam to another mail- 
box (perhaps named Junk), and 
every so often, scan the mailbox 
for legitimate messages before 
deleting everything. 

Run Silent, Run Deep The 
easiest way to rid yourself of spam 
is simply to avoid the places that 
spammers frequent. First, avoid 
posting to Usenet newsgroups, 
since spammers regularly analyze posted 
messages and add the posters’ addresses 
to their lists. If you must post, set your 
e-mail address to something fake, like 
adamNOSPAMengst@tidbits.com, and 
include a line in your message such as “To 
send me e-mail, remove NOSPAM from 
my e-mail address.” 

Second, avoid putting your e-mail 
address on your Web page — spammers 
send out automated programs, called 
robots, to scan Web pages for e-mail 
addresses. You can foil this dastardly 
technique by spelling out your address 
(“E-mail me at adamengst at tidbits 
.com”); a geckier technique involves the 
use of a simple JavaScript that stops 
address-gathering robots but still allows 
people to click on a link to send you 
mail. (See http://db.netbits.net/getbits 
.acgi?nbart=04661 for details on the Java- 
Script technique.) 

Finally, never reply to a spam message 
asking to be removed. Most of the time, 
your reply will bounce back to you, since 
spammers aren’t interested in receiving 
mail, just sending it. Worse, if your mes- 
sage doesn’t bounce, you’ve just identified 
yourself as having a valid e-mail address 
that’s prime for more spam in the fuuire. 




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Stamp Out Spam! 



I'VE RECEIVED COUNTLESS AMOUNTS OF SPAM IN THE LAST YEAR. IN 
the interest of science, Tve saved all of it — and I've analyzed it to 
identify the best ways of separating spam from real e-mail. Here are 
eight great methods for identifying spam. 



Set up a filter that looks for 
messages that don't contain 
your e-mail address in either the 
To or the CC lines. Most spam 
fits this description — but so can 
legitimate messages, since any- 
one can send you a message 
by putting your address in the 
BCC (blind carbon copy) line. As 
a result, you shouldn't automat- 
ically delete these messages — 
just mark them as potential 
spam. (Be sure that this filter is 
used only after you've already 
filtered out messages from your 
Internet mailing lists, since that 
mail would also be picked up 
by this filter.) 



This filter catches about half 
of all the spam messages I 
receive. Users of Emailer can 
Improve this filter even more by 
checking to see if messages were 
sent by a person in your address 
book — those that aren't are even 
more likely to be spam. 

2 Look for the string "-0600 
(EST)" in the header. That 
string indicates how many hours 
off from Greenwich mean time 
the sender's time zone is. The 
catch is that eastern standard time 
never equals -0600 — that Incor- 
rect time stamp Is a bug In one 
specific spam-sending program. 



3 Look for a header line that 
contains "Comments: Authen- 
ticated sender is" but does not 
contain the line "X-Mailer: 
Pegasus." The Pegasus Mail 
e-mail program uses both lines; 
spam uses only the first. 

4 Look for the header line 
"X-PMFLAGS." Although 
Pegasus Mail supposedly uses this 
too. I've only ever seen It in spam. 

Look for an "X-Ad" header 
line. Although most spam 
tries to disguise Itself, some spam 
messages Include this header. 

Look for either you or friend 
In the To line, unless your 
e-mail address contains those 
words. Make sure not to delete 
messages that contain such 
words without checking, since 
there's nothing stopping some- 



one from using these words 
legitimately. 

7 Look in the body of the 
message for the string 
"Extractor Pro Bulk E-Mail" or 
"This message is being brought 
to you by EMAIL BLASTER 2.5," 
since those bulk-e-mall pro- 
grams advertise themselves In 
every piece of spam they send. 

Finally, look In the Subject 
line of messages for text 
that's likely to appear only In 
spam. For instance, you might 
mark messages whose subject 
lines include multiple exclama- 
tion points; multiple dollar signs; 
the words money, sex, or adult; 
and so on. Be careful of filtering 
such messages without check- 
ing, because those words can 
easily appear in the subject lines 
of legitimate messages. 



Dealing with E-mail Attachments 

Ever receive an e-mail attachment you 
couldn’t open? Most of us have. Files must 
be formatted in a specific way to survive 
being transferred via e-mail. Unfortunate- 
ly, there are several encoding formats, and 
not all e-mail programs understand how 
to create or read all of them.The trick to 
sending attachments successfully is to 
know what e-mail program and operating 
s)'stem your recipient uses. 

Foolproof Encoding If your recipient 
uses a recently released e-mail program on 
either a Mac or a PC, default settings for 
attachment fonnats should usually work. If 
diey don’t, look for settings called MLME 
or AppleDouble. Many people don’t 
update their e-mail programs regularly, 
though, so if you’re having trouble sending 
to someone who might be using an older 
e-mail program on the Mac, try^ BinHex. 
For PC users, try UUencode. (For an in- 
depth guide to making file attachments 
work, see “The Heartbreak of MLME 
Attachments,” SecretSy in this issue.) 

Compression Issues MTen sending 
lots of files or large files, it’s generally a 
good idea to compress them before send- 
ing, to reduce transfer time. The standard 
way to do this on the Mac is with Aladdin 
Systems’ (408/761-6200, mw.aladdinsys 



.com) $130 Stuffit Deluxe or $30 shareware 
DropStuff. Maybe people already have 
Aladdin’s free Stuffit Expander on their 
Macs and won’t have any trouble decom- 
pressing the file. If you want to be extra sure 
they’ll get the file, however, you can use 
Stuffit to create a self-extracting archive, 
which can expand without any help. 

It’s when you’re sending from a Mac 
to a Windows PC that you might get 
into trouble. You’ll need to either use 
standard compression format for PCs — 
the Zip format — or avoid compression 
entirely. Luckily for you, there’s a Mac 
utility — ^Tom Brown’s $15 Zipit (www 
.awa.com/softlock/zipit/) — that can cre- 
ate Zip files for you to share with your 
Windows-using friends. 

Zipit will also expand the Zip files you 
receive from PC users. Those witli eidier 
Stuffit Deluxe or DropStuff can also use 
Stuffit E.xpander to expand Zip files. (For 
more cross-platform file-transfer tips, see 
“Save Your Mac!” April 1998.) 

In Search of Attachments Attach- 
ments must live somewhere on your disk, 
but the default location the e-mail pro- 
gram picks may not be ideal. Create a 
folder called Downloads and set it as the 
destination for all your e-mail attach- 
ments and for everything you download 



via the Web or FTP. That way, when you 
want to find something you’ve received 
from the outside world, you need look 
only in a single place. 

Also, if you’re using Mac OS 8.0 or 
8.1, consider making that folder into a 
tabbed window and docking it at the bot- 
tom of your screen for fast access. I sort my 
Downloads folder by date so that the most 
recent items rise to the top of the window. 

The Last Word 

No matter which e-mail program you use, 
you can take advantage of these strategies 
for handling your e-mail more efficiently 
and effectively. Set up mailboxes to orga- 
nize all the different t}q)es of e-mail mes- 
sages you receive, and tlien create filters 
to transfer those messages to the right 
places. These simple techniques, com- 
bined with some anti-spam filters, will 
keep your in-box uncluttered and help 
you deal more quickly with the important 
messages you receive. And, of course, the 
less time you spend on e-mail, the more 
time you have for the real world, m 



ADAM C. ENGST is the publisher of the online 
newsletter Tidbits and the author of Eudora for 
Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide 
(Peachpit Press, 1997). 



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music. But thanks to a new generation of speakers from 
companies such as Yamaha and Altec T^ansing, you can 
enjoy great Mac-based stereo sound for music and 
games without breaking the bank. 

Macworld looked at 14 multimedia speaker s)^stems 
with prices ranging from $70 to $600. We hooked up 
each speaker system to a Performa 6400 and evaluated 
audio quality, using music CDs, computer games, and 
Mac sounds such as system alerts. For the CDs, we chose 
music that exposes common speaker weaknesses such as 
boomy bass, muted trebles, and harsh midtones. Our 
selections ran the gamut from symphonies and solo 
piano to jazz and hard rock. 

We found that at the lower end of die price scale, 
you’re still likely to encounter speakers that make your 
favorite music sound as if it’s coming from the bottom 
of a barrel. But we did discover several systems in the 
$150-to-$200 range that will please most audiophiles 
and multimedia fans. 



V 

/ you wouldn’t know it from the wimpy speakers built 
into most Mac models. The killer CD that booms from 



OUR AAACINTOSH CAN AAAKE BEAUTIFUL AAUSIC, BUT 



your stereo produces a tinny echo when played on your 



CD-ROM drive, and your favorite computer-game 



soundtracks sound muffled and distant. But there’s an 
easy way to turn your Mac into a true entertainment 
center and get full sonic impact from music and multi- 
media: just add a decent set of multimedia speakers. 

.A few years ago, you had to spend at least $300 to 
get computer speakers with sound quality that rivaled 
that of a home stereo system. Inexpensive speakers were 
fine for boosting the volume of computer games but 
sounded like cheap boom boxes when reproducing 



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Pumping Up the Volume 






Mouse 


List 


Phone 


Warranty 






Company 


Product 


Rating 


Price 


Number 


(in years) 


Pieces 


Wattage 


Altec Lansing 


PowerCube ACS45 


m 


$100 


717/296-4434 


1 


3 


32 (20 + 6 + 6) 




PowerCube ACS48 




$150 


717/296-4434 


1 


3 


80 (40 + 20 + 20) 


Bose 


Acoustimass 




$600 


508/879-7330 


1 


3 


not available 




MediaMate 




$200 


508/879-7330 


1 


2 


not available 


Jazz 


Jazz3D 


♦♦'A 


$225 


818/336-2689 


2 


3 


46 (18 + 14+ 14) 




Jazz J-590 


M’a 


$90 


818/336-2689 


2 


2 


28 (14 + 14) 




Jazz J-902 subwoofer 




$80 


818/336-2689 


2 


1 


18 


Labtec 


LCS-1030 


♦♦♦’A 


$70 


360/896-2000 


1 


2 


10 (5 + 5) 




LCS-2408 subwoofer 


♦♦’A 


$70 


360/896-2000 


1 


1 


14 




LCS-2612 


m 


$160 


360/896-2000 


1 


3 


20 (12 + 4 + 4) 


MidiLand 


S2/MidiLand 4100 




$400 


909/592-1168 


3 


4 


100 (50 + 25 + 25) 


Roland 


MA9 


♦«’A 


$150 


360/332-4211 


1 


2 


16(8 + 8) 


Yamaha 


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A Different Beast 

So what makes a speaker a multimedia 
speaker? First, it needs a built-in amplifi- 
er to boost the weak audio signal from 
your Mac. It also needs shielding in the 
enclosure to prevent magnetic emissions 
from interfering with your computer dis- 
play. And unlike their home-stereo- 
system counterparts, which you generally 
want to place in the far corners of a room, 
multimedia speakers are designed for up- 
close listening. 

A Few Easy Pieces In a typical two- 
piece multimedia-speaker system, one 
speaker — generally the right one — func- 
tions as a control center, with a built-in 
amplifier, power supply, and volume con- 
trol as well as built-in cable connections. 
You plug the control speaker into your 
Mac’s headphone jack and then plug the 
second speaker into the first with a single 
cable — ^no extra equipment such as an AV 
card or adapter is needed. Most speaker 
systems also include a second audio-input 
jack, which is useful if you want to con- 
nect an audio-CD player or radio and is 
essential if you have an external CD- 
ROM drive with separate audio output. 

Hearing the Low Notes In addition 
to two main speakers, often called satel- 
lites^ some systems include a third com- 
ponent called a subwoofer, which enhances 
the bass response. Subwoofer is a bit of a 
misnomer, since it implies that the speak- 



er produces sounds at a lower frequency 
than a woofer (below 20Hz), but the sub- 
woofers sold with multimedia speakers 
(and with many stereo systems) are really 
just woofers housed in their own enclo- 
sures. Bose more correctly refers to its 
subwoofers as bass modules. 

But don’t assume that a three-piece 
system will produce better sound than a 
two-piece system; in our roundup, we 
discovered that some two-piece systems 
outperformed three-piece systems in 
sound quality. 

Sounding Out the Best 

When Macwo?‘ld last did a roundup 
of multimedia speakers (“Multimedia 
Speakers,” March 1996), the three-piece 
Acoustimass system from Bose (www 
.bose.com) earned the highest rating, 
despite its hefty $700 list price. Two years 
later, the Acoustimass — now pared down 
to $600 — still offers the best sound qual- 
ity of the speakers we tested. 

The Acoustimass satellites measure 
only 3 inches tall by 4.5 inches deep, but 
the system delivers an unbelievably rich 
and realistic sound. Our only complaint 
is that the volume, bass, and treble con- 
trols are located on the bass module, mak- 
ing them hard to reach if you put the unit 
on the floor. But if you care about sound 
quality above all else, you’ll probably be 
able to overlook this inconvenience. 



The Acoustimass may be an audio- 
phile’s dream, but $600 is quite a hefty 
price, considering that your Mac is prob- 
ably not your primary CD player. Four 
other systems we listened to offer audio 
quality approaching that of the Acousti- 
mass, but they do so for less than $200. 

The best bargain of the bunch is the 
$150 three-piece PowerCube ACS48, 
from Altec Lansing (www.altecmm.com). 
Its massive subwoofer and 6-inch-tall 
satellite speakers deliver audio quality 
you’d expect from a decent home stereo. 

The volume and power controls are 
conveniently located on top of the right 
satellite speaker. The downside is that 
these are electronic controls: you push an 
up arrow to raise the volume and a down 
arrow to lower it. We prefer dial controls, 
but that’s a minor quibble, given the 
sound quality and value of the ACS48. 

Don’t confuse the ACS48 with Altec 
Lansing’s three-piece PowerCube ACS45; 
the model numbers are similar, but the 
systems’ audio quality is worlds apart. 
Designed primarily for use with comput- 
er games, the $100 ACS45 offers much 
weaker bass and a generally harsher sound 
than the PowerCube ACS48. 

Yamaha’s $200 System 45 (www 
.yamaha.com) combines the 10-inch-tall 
YST-M15 satellite speakers with the 
YST-MSWIO subwoofer (the satellite set 
and subwoofer are also available separate- 



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Harsh midtones and treble, weak bass; compact design for three-piece system. 

Excellent music reproduction for the price; subwoofer consumes a lot of floor space. 

Best-sounding but most expensive speaker system in roundup; controls Inconveniently located on bass module. 



Best-sounding two-speaker system in roundup; excellent bass for a two-piece system. 

Mediocre music reproduction, especially for the pri ce; 3-D sound adds distortion. 

Mediocre sound for the price; muffled treble. 

Stand-alone subwoofer for use with other vendors' satellite speakers; powerful but boomy bass. 

Marketed as inexpensive audiophile system, but weak bass and muffled treble. 

Stand-alone subwoofer for use with other vendors' satellite speakers; weak bass compared to that of Jazz J-902. 

Mediocre* music reproduction, with weak bass and muffled treble; 3-D-sound option distorts music, but not as much as 
that of other products; includes mounting bracket for satellites. 

Powerful 100-watt amp; controls conveniently located on separate control module; sounds harsh at higher volumes; 
3-D sound adds distortion. 



Bulky; speakers offer decent sound reproduction, but a little harsh in the midtones; separate microphone input. 
Excellent music reproduction; compact subwoofer puts out dean but powerful bass. 

Bulky speakers with good sound quality for a two-piece system. 



ly for Si 00 each). The compact sub- 
woofer puts out a clean hut powerful bass, 
and the system overall delivers excellent 
audio quality. The satellites, a bit bulkier 
than those of the Acoustimass and 
ACS48, include dial controls for volume 
and tone, as well as a second audio input. 

We were also impressed by a pair of 
two-piece systems: Bose’s $200 Media- 
Mate and Yamaha’s $180 YST-MIOO. 
Both offer surprisingly powerful bass and 
excellent overall sound quality, but we 
were especially impressed by the Media- 
Mate. Pop in a CD and close your eyes, 
and you won’t believe such rich sound is 
coming from such small speakers. 
Roland’s $150 two-piece MA9 (www 
.edirol.com) offered reasonable sound 
quality but had harsh midtones. 

Power for a Price 

For sheer volume, nothing beats Midi- 
Land’s massive $400 S2/MidiLand 4100 
(www.midiland.com), a four-piece system 
with black aluminum-encased satellites 
and a gargantuan 30-pound subwoofer — 
about the size and shape of a CPU 
tower — that has a built-in 100-watt 
amplifier. The fourth piece is a control 
module linked to the subwoofer by a 10- 
foot cable. 

Although it delivers the most 
wattage of any system we tested, the 
4100 proves that bigger and more pow- 



erful is not necessarily better. Midtones 
and trebles sound harsh, especially at 
higher volumes. We also question why 
anyone other than a heavy-metal fanatic 
would want such powerful speakers so 
close to their computer. This system 
might find a home in computer-presen- 
tation facilities, but don’t even thhik 
about taking it on the road. 

3-D Follies 

The 4100 is one of several speaker 
systems in our roundup that offers a 
3-D-sound option, where audio-process- 
ing tricks make it seem as if the sound is 
playing all around you. But the effect is 
like being inside a reverb chamber and 
can be quite annoying; fortunately, it’s 
easy to turn on and off. 

The $160 LCS-2612, from Labtec 
(www.labtec.com), offers the cleanest 
3-D sound of the systems we tested, but 
the distortion was still apparent. And 
with the 3-D option turned off, music 
sounded like it was coming from the bot- 
tom of a barrel. We were even less 
impressed with the $225 Jazz 3D, from 
Jazz (www.jazzspeakers.com). Without 
the 3-D option, music sounds muffled. 
With 3-D turned on, it sounds shrill. 

Both are three-piece systems: Lab- 
tec’s subwoofer includes all system con- 
trols and is designed to sit next to your 
computer; the satellites hang from each 



side of a bracket you place on top of the 
monitor. The Jazz system’s controls are 
on the right satellite speaker. Both of 
these systems’ subwoofers deliver weak 
bass compared to those in the Yamaha and 
Altec Lansing systems. 

Labtec and Jazz also offer stand- 
alone subwoofers that can be used to 
enhance the bass response in otlier ven- 
dors’ speakers. Jazz’s $80 J-902 sub- 
woofer adds a lot of oomph to the bass 
but sounds a tad boomy. Labtec’s $70 
LCS-2408 subwoofer sounds positively 
wimpy by comparison. 

Macworld's Buying Advice 

If you want truly superior audio quality 
and are willing to pay a lot for it, your 
choice is clearly the Acoustimass system 
from Bose. No other speakers come close 
to matching the richness of their sound. 
But to get the best audio quality for the 
money, we recommend Altec Lansing’s 
$150 PowerCuhe ACS48 or Yamaha’s 
$200 System 45; the latter offers more- 
convenient controls and slightly cleaner 
bass but comes with a higher price. 
Among the mo-piece systems, we found 
that Yamaha’s $180 YST-MIOO and Bose’s 
$200 MediaMate deliver the best sound 
quality; we lean toward the latter, because 
of its richer reproduction of bass tones, m 



Senior editor STEPHEN BEALE is a longtime 
audiophile and Macworld's news editor. 



EDITORS' CHOICE 



Two-Piece Systems 
Bose MediaMate This compact 
speaker set has rich sound quality and surpris- 
ingly powerful bass for a two-piece system. 
Company: Bose (508/879-7330, www.bose 
.com). List price: $200. 

Three-Piece Systems 
MMv, Altec Lansing PowerCube ACS48 
Although its large subwoofer takes up a lot of 
space, this speaker system has excellent sound 
quality— like that you'd expect from a decent 
home stereo — for a good price. Company: Altec 
Lansing (717/296-4434, www.altecmm.com). 
List price: $150. 



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The Heartbreak of MIME Attachments 

BINHEX, BASE64, UUENCODE, AND OTHER E-MAIL MYSTERIES EXPLAINED 




by Joseph Schorr 



S omething has gone terribly 
wrong. Your project is due at 
noon, and the client just sent 
you an e-mail attachment con- 
taining last-minute revisions. 
But your Mac can’t open the 
file. Double-clicking on it just 
brings up an error message. 
Thinking the file must be cor- 
rupted, you frantically phone the client 
and have him send it again. But the new 
file still won’t open. Desperate, you pry 
open the manuscript with your word pro- 
cessor, but all you see is page after page 
of meaningless garbage characters. 
Wliat’s wrong with the file? Probably 
nothing. You’ve simply become another 
victim of MIA4E. 

What Happened? 

Let me explain: That string of seemingly 
meaningless text isn’t garbage — it’s code. 
To ensure the attachment’s safe passage 
over the Internet, your client’s e-mail 
program encoded the file using an 
encryption scheme called MliVIE (Multi- 
purpose Internet Mail Extensions). 
MLME uirned the file into a string of text 
characters. Unfortunately, your e-mail 
program failed to decode the MLME file 
back into its original format. The good 
news: you can decode it yourself. 

Actually, three types of encoding are 
routinely used to send attached files via 
e-mail: MLVIE, UUencode, and BinHex. 
All three can potentially leave you with 



file attachments that look unintelligible. 
Read on for an explanation of these mys- 
terious codes, why they exist, and how 
you can crack them open and make your 
files look the way they are supposed to. 

Why It Happened 

Most e-mail systems are designed to 
handle plain-old ASCII characters. These 
text-based systems use 7 bits of data to 
specify each character. But many files — 
such as graphics, databases, and movies — 
contain a lot more than just plain text. 



The data packed into such files is stored 
in a binary format that uses not 7 but 8 
bits to define each morsel of information. 

So how do you transmit 8-bit data 
through a 7-bit system? That’s where 
encoding comes in. Encoding schemes 
use an encrj'ption system that represents 
each hunk of 8-bit binarj' data as a string 
of plain-old ASCII text — text that can 
travel intact across any file server, 
through any mail gateway, and into any 
e-mail program, regardless of platform. 
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SECRETS 



Breaking the Code 

E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS AND DOWNLOADED FILES THAT ARRIVE ENCODED AND 
unreadable can usually be decoded and turned back into usable files. Keep these tips In mind 
when using decoding tools. 

If at First You Don’t Succeed ... If your decoding efforts fail, don't be too quick to con- 
clude that a file is corrupted; you may be using the wrong decoding tool. There is more than 
one kind of UUencoding, for example, and a number of MIME variations. If one UUdecoder 
doesn't work, try another. You may have to run a file through several different utilities that all 
claim to do the same thing to find one that offers the particular flavor of decoding you require. 

Don't Autodelete Some decoding utilities offer the option of automatically deleting an 
encoded file after the decoding process — convenient but dangerous. If something goes wrong, 
you may have to try decoding the file again. Keep original encoded files around until you have 
a clean, saved copy of the decoded file; then drag the originals to the Trash. 

Be a Code Detective If an attempt to decode a file doesn’t work, open the file with 
your word processor and read the header at the beginning of the code; it will reveal the type 
of encoding that the sender used. 

It’s Not Over Till It’s Over Some files are compressed and encoded. You may decode a 
UUencoded file, for example, only to find that it then has to be decompressed using UnZip. 

Don’t Count on Double-Clickability If a file still won't open after you’ve successfully 
decoded it, try opening it from within the application that created it, using the Open command. 
UUencoded files, in particular, tend to lose their type and creator codes in transit and arrive as 
documents with generic icons. These files won't open with a double-click because the Mac 
doesn't know what program to use to open them. Opening the files from within the appropri- 
ate application solves the problem. (If you don't know what type of file you’ve got, you'll just 
have to guess. Keep trying different types of programs till you get one that works.) 



V\^en an encoded file arrives at its desti- 
nation, it’s up to your e-mail program to 
detect the encoding system used and 
convert the file back into its original 
binary form — and that’s what usually 
happens, behind the scenes, without your 
even knowing about it. 

However, sometimes the particular 
encoding system used by the sender isn’t 
supported by the recipient’s mail pro- 
gram — there are several different (and 
incompatible) versions of UUencoding, 
for example — and the result is that tiles 
arrive in their encoded state. 

On Mac systems, the most popular 
encoding scheme is BinHex. UUencod- 
ing is an older scheme with Unix origins 
(the UU stands for Unix-to-Unix). The 
most popular — and most current — sys- 
tem is MLME, which is also called Base64. 

How to Fix It 

Fixing a file that arrives in its encoded 
state is usually a simple drag-and-drop 
affair. You can assemble a pretty compre- 
hensive decoding kit widiout spending 
much money. Use the freeware Stuffit 
Expander, by Aladdin Systems, to open 
BinHex files (usually tagged with a .hqx 
suffix at the end of the file name) and to 
decompress .sit files. Add the $30 share- 
ware DropStuff with Expander Enhancer 
to Aladdin’s Stuffit Expander, and your 
decoding/decompressing options multi- 
ply: you can handle UUencoded files 
(usually tagged with a .uu suffi.x), as well 
as a number of compression formats, in- 
cluding .zip, .z, .gz, and .ARC files. 

If you’re willing to assemble an arse- 
nal of smaller, specialized tools, you can 
spend even less — in fact, nothing — to 
decode attachments. Open UUencoded, 
BinHex, and Base64 files with Laurent 



Hagimont’s free utility, uucd. Crack open 
MIME files with Brian Clark’s YA Base64 
or John Myers’s Mpack — both freeware. 
Finally, you can use A. R Maika’s free- 
ware UnZip 5.32 to tackle zipped files 
from PC users. These indispensable util- 
ities are available from Mac Downloads 
at Macworld Online. 

With most of them, you simply drag 
the files onto the icon of the appropriate 
utility to launch the decoding process. 
For tips on using these utilities, see 
“Breaking the Code.” 

How do you determine which utility 
to use? Usually, a file’s name provides a 
clue. UUencoded files may end with .uu; 
Base64 files may end with .MLME. 
Often, though, the suffix is missing; in 



that case, you have to do some detective 
work. One easy way to figure out the 
encoding method used is to open the file 
in question with a word processor — 
remember, encoded files are just strings 
of plain text, and each type of encoding 
has telltale characteristics (check out 
“Clues to Decoding”). 

It may take several rounds of decod- 
ing, decompressing, and deciphering to 
tame the attachments that show up in 
your in-box, but with a few of the right 
tools and a little perseverance, you’ll 
never feel victimized by MliVIE again, m 



JOSEPH SCHORR is a program manager at Extensis 
and a coauthor of the forthcoming Macworld Mac 
Secrets, fifth edition (IDG Books Worldwide). 



Clues to Decoding 



ENCODED FILES MAY LOOK LIKE RANDOM GARBAGE. BUT THEY 
contain plenty of clues that reveal how to handle them. The header in 
the first document reveals that it is a Base64 MIME file. You can tell 



that the second document is UUencoded because every line starts with 
the letter Ad. BinHex files, like the third document, always contain a 
line at the top that says the file must be converted with BinHex. 




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secrets 




Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts 



One of Mac OS 8.0 and S.Vs little secrets 

is that their pop-up windows can imitate 

the Launcher control panel — and even 

have advantages over the Launcher. You 

can resize pop-up windows individually 

and set view options differently for each 
one, and they disappear when not in use. 
To make them act like the Launcher, sim- 
ply choose As Buttons from the View 
menu for each pop-up window, and set 
the Keep Arranged option of the View 
Options command to By Name. 

The drawback of using pop-ups like 
this is that when a window covers your 
pop-up tabs, you lose one-step access to 
the pop-up windows. But to make your 
pop-up windows more accessible. Art 
Gorski of Houston, Texas, suggests you 
put their folders (or aliases of the folders) 
in the Apple Menu Items folder in your 
System Folder. Then you can access a 
pop-up window and its contents quickly 
from the Apple menu even if the pop-up 
tab is buried under a stack of windows. 
WTiat’s more, the Apple menu updates 
automatically when you change the con- 
tents of a pop-up window listed diere. 

Conversely, Jed Singer of Claremont, 
California, keeps die Recent Applications 
folder open as a pop-up window. He drags 
files onto the Recent Applicadons tab, and 
the window obligingly pops up to reveal 
recent applicadons, and he’s in business. 

Overcoming Download Interruption 

Q I want to download a large file from 
. the Internet, and for some freaking 
reason I cannot maintain a connection 
for the duration of the download. Is there 
any freeware or shareware that would let 



by Lon Poole 

me go back to the site and resume down- 
loading where I left off, rather than hav- 
ing to start over from the beginning? 

Cameron M. Bobbett 
Charleston, South Carolina 

A If you’re downloading from an 
. FTP ser\’er (the URL begins with 
ftp://, not http://), try the Fetch file-trans- 
fer program from Dartmouth College 
(ww'w'.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch 
.html). The Resume Download command 
in Fetch’s Remote menu can somerimes 
resume an interrupted download (use 



Fetch Help for details on this command’s 
limitations). Fetch is $25 shareware (free 
for educational and nonprofit organiza- 
tions), but check with your Internet ser- 
vice provider, as some ISPs license it for 
free distribution to their Mac customers. 

Curing QuickTime Web Silence 

Q I put a couple of great songs 
. recorded by my friend Guido Heis- 
tek on a Web page as sound-only Quick- 



Time movies, using Claris Home Page 
2.0 to insert the movies and turn on the 
Autoplay attribute for each movie. The 
songs played beautifully when I pre- 
viewed the page from my hard drive with 
Netscape Navigator 3.0, but after I 
uploaded the page and movie files to my 
server, the movies became silent. Naviga- 
tor displayed the message “plug-in load- 
ing” at the bottom of the browser win- 
dow, counted up the K as each movie file 
loaded, and then the big finale . . . 
silence. What did I do wrong? 

Andrew Funderburg 
Fukuoka, Japan 

A A sound-only Quick- 
. Time movie may not 
play from a Web site for sev- 
eral reasons. For one, many 
browsers and servers require 
that a Web-site developer 
flatten QuickTime movies 
(combine their resources and 
data for cross-platform com- 
patibility) before inserting 
them on Web pages. You can 
flatten movies with the Save 
As command in Movie Player 
version 2.0 and later (includ- 
ed with recent versions of 
QuickTime and the Mac OS), 
as shown in “Flat Movies.” 

In addition, several pa- 
rameters of the HTML code that embeds 
a movie in a Web page can affect whether 
the movie plays. The movie must have a 
height and width of at least 2 pixels or it 
can cause problems for browsers. If you’re 
tempted to hide a sound-only movie by 
making it tiny, turn off the movie con- 
troller instead. (Don’t forget to set hidden 
movies to play automatically or no one 
will ever hear them.) For example, in 
Claris Home Page you would set the 
Controller option to No and select the 
continues 




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QUICK TIPS 




Flat Movies You need to flatten QuickTime movies 
to guarantee that they will work with most Web 
browsers on both Macs and PCs. Open the movie 
with Movie Player version 2.0 or later, choose Save 
As from the File menu, and set the dialog box options 
as shown here. Be sure to name the flattened movie 
with the suffix .mov so browser applications will 
know It’s a movie file. 

Autoplay option in the movie’s Object 
Editor window. In Adobe PageMill 
2.0, type controller and false followed by 
autoplay and true in the blank spaces in 
the Inspector palette’s Object panel. 

You can also hide a movie in Adobe 
PageMill and Claris Home Page by 
adding the parameter hldden=false. Don’t 
use hidden=true or simply hidden, because 
these alternatives hide the movie and pre- 
vent it from playing automatically. For 
e.xample, in Claris Home Page, you would 
type hldden=false into the E.xtra HTxML 
box and select the Autoplay attribute in 
the movie’s Object Editor window. In 
PageMill, you would type hidden and false 
followed by autoplay and true in the blank 
spaces provided in the Inspector palette’s 
Object panel. 

Apple’s QuickTime Web site has a 
complete list of all the HTML movie 
parameters at m\'w.apple.com/quicktime/ 
dev/qtde\^veb.html. 



Making ClarisWorks 5.0 Speak 

Q “The Mac Speaks Out” revealed 
. how to make ClarisWorks 4.0 talk 
(Sea’ctSy August 1997). I didn’t own the 
program then, but I recently purchased 
ClarisWorks Office. To my dismay, I 
found that the Shortcuts submenu men- 
tioned in Secrets is gone in ClarisWorks 
5.0 and there is nary^ a button with lips to 
be found. Has ClarisWorks gone mute? 

Leigh L. Pang 
Eastsouml, Wasbmgton 



A in ClarisWorks 5.0, the Speak 
. Text button looks like a tiny Mac 
Classic with a cartoon balloon. To add 
this button, choose Edit Button Bars 
from the pop-up menu in the button 
bar. In the dialog box, choose a button 
bar in which to nest the Speak Text 
button. In the next dialog box, choose 
Word Processing from the pop-up 
menu, select the Speak Te.xt button, and 
click Add. 



Speed Up Mac OS 8 Folders 



If a folder opens slowly in Mac 
OS 8, even after you have 
turned off the two Folder Protection 
options in die General Controls control 
panel (as suggested in February 1998’s 
Quick Tips)y the folder may simply con- 
tain too many items. Marc D. Grobman 
of Thornton, Pennsylvania, reports that 
whenever he opened a folder containing 
files for each of his 2,000 patients, “to say 
that Mac OS 8 was glacial is a crude 



TIP 



understatement.” Adjusting the disk 
cache and initializing the hard disk didn’t 
provide any improvement. Finally, he cre- 
ated new folders and organized the files 
alphabetically, moving all the patients 
whose last name begins with A to an A 
folder, and so on. Now his folders open 
with the utmost speed, m 



LON POOLL answers readers’ questions and 
selects reader-submitted tips for this monthly 
column. I !is latest hook is Macu'orld Mac OS 8 liihle 
(IDG Books Worldwide, 1997). 



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A Better Path to Photoshop Masks 

IF YOU WANT AN EFFICIENT, FLEXIBLE WAY TO CREATE COMPLEX MASKS IN 
Adobe Photoshop, Jonathan S. Gilbert of Austin, Texas, recommends that you try 
paths. Gilbert works with Photoshop eight hours a day and believes paths are the best 
way to create complex masks because they're more accurate and easier to edit. 

Creating paths Is like making a connect-the-dots drawing: you place corner-point or 
curve-point "dots" by clicking or dragging with the pen tool. You can add as many dots 
as you need to correctly outline fine details. For example, imagine the daunting task of 
masking an image of bicyclists with fine details such as spokes, cables, and hair. The 
spokes' edges blend with the back- 
ground road, making it impossible to 
select Individual spokes with the High 
Pass filter or the magic-wand tool. 

Instead, outline the spaces between 
spokes by drawing and editing paths 
with the pen tool (see "Easy Masking"). 

After you've drawn the paths, 
you can convert them all to a mask 
by dragging the path thumbnail in 
the Paths palette to the Make Selec- 
tion Icon, or by activating the path 
and clicking the icon. You can also 
build up a mask by converting paths 
piecemeal; adding and subtracting paths makes It easy to mask the bicycles' spokes 
and wheels. You add a path to, subtract It from, or Intersect it with the mask by select- 
ing the path's points and pressing shift-option while clicking the Make Selection Icon 
(5§-click to select one point on a path, or ^-option-click to select all points). 




Easy Masking Mask fine details such as bicycle 
wheel spokes by connecting hand-drawn paths. 



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Get Prepress- Ready PDFs from QuarkXPress 

Acrobat Distiller Smooths the PDF Process 



by Stephen Beale 



A crobat, Adobe Systems’ 
portable-document tech- 
nology, was developed to 
put publications online. 
With Acrobat 3.0 ($295; 
408/5 3 6-6000, \v'w^\^adobe 
.com), Adobe reworked 
the Portable Document 
Format (PDF) to be suit- 
able for prepress purposes too. The Acro- 
bat files that perform on screen can now 
walk a tightrope to your service bureau. 

The PDF Advantage 

Most prepress production systems are 
based on PostScript, a page-description 
language that uses English-like com- 
mands to generate type, vector graphics, 
and bitmapped images. PDF uses the 
same underlying software as PostScript 
but has a more efficient structure that 
treats each page as a self-contained object 
instead of as a series of sequentially pro- 
cessed commands. PDF now offers sev- 
eral advantages over PostScript as a file 
format for printing: 

• PDF files are typically more com- 
pact than their PostScript counterparts 
and less prone to output errors. 

• You can soft-proof a PDF file by 
opening it in Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader. 

• You can make minor text edits to a 
PDF file with Acrobat Exchange, which 
is part of the Acrobat 3.0 package. 

Once you’ve converted a PostScript 
file to PDF, you can print the file with 
Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange. 
At this point, the file gets converted 
back to PostScript, but it’s generally a 
cleaner PostScript file — smaller and eas- 
^ ier to print — than what you began with. 
I (PostScript 3 printers, which are begin- 
Q ning to appear now, can process PDF 
i files directly.) 



PDF Pitfalls 

Here’s the rub: the Acrobat technology 
and PDF come from Adobe, but the 
most-popular professional page-layout 
software comes from archrival Quark. 
You can produce PDFs from Quark- 
XPress 3.x and 4.0, but it’s tricky. And 
Quark’s manual doesn’t help. Quark is 
developing a PDF export filter for 
XPress, but for now, you’re on your own. 

There are three options for produc- 
ing PDF files from XPress, but only 
one — Acrobat Distiller (part of Acrobat 
3.0) — creates PDFs suitable for produc- 
tion printing. The others — Adobe’s PDF- 
Writer (a QuickDraw driver included in 
Acrobat 3.0) and Apple’s LaserWriter 8.5 
drivers — are designed to produce PDFs 
for online posting or electronic exchange. 
Another PDFWriter drawback is that it 
won’t print EPS files. 



Do the PDF Two-Step 

Getting PDFs from XPress is a two-step 
process: use the Mac’s PostScript printer 
driver to convert the file to a PostScript 
print file, then use Distiller to convert 
the PostScript file to PDF. The tricky 
part is figuring out which settings to use. 

Distiller’s defaults prepare files for 
online viewing. For print jobs, you want 
to produce a generic PDF file diat works 
with a multitude of output devices (see 
“Distilling the Two-Part PDF Process”). 

Before preparing a PDF file, you 
should discuss your project with the tech- 
nicians at your service bureau. They can 
suggest ways to optimize your file for their 
workflow, software, and prepress equip- 
ment. .^\iter all, you don’t want Acrobat 
to tumble into the net as it walks the pre- 
press tightrope. 
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Distilling the Two-Part 
PDF Process 



DISTILLER'S DEFAULT SETTINGS CAN HAVE DISASTROUS RESULTS FOR MOST PRINT JOBS. 
The settings described below will give you a generic PDF file that should work for 
most color prepress jobs. To get the best results, check with your service bureau 
for more specific settings. 



Part 1 : Create a PostScript Print File 

O In the Chooser, select the PSPrinter driver. You should use 
Adobe's PSPrinter 8.3.1, which you can download from 
Adobe's Web site. (To see which PSPrinter-driver version you 
have, open the Extensions folder inside your System Folder, 
click on PSPrinter, and press 5€-l.) Apple's LaserWriter driver 
also produces PostScript print files, but It's more complicated 



and requires being connected to a PostScript printer. 

Select Virtual Printer In the Printer Type pop-up. Then click 
on Setup, and choose Acrobat Distiller as your PPD. If you're 
running QuarkXPress 3.32, you must remove the Balloon Help 
file from the QuarkXPress folder. PSPrinter 8.3.1 conflicts with 
balloon help and will crash your system when you try to print. 



O Now you’re ready to define print settings. The process is a 
bit different In versions 3.X and 4.0. 

QuarkXPress 3.3 Open the Page Setup dialog box, and make 
sure Acrobat Distiller is selected in the Printer Type pop-up (A). 
Set Resolution to 2,400 dpi or higher (B); set Halftone Screen to 
200 Ipi or higher (C). Select Use PDF Screen Values (D). (In Quark- 
XPress 3.x, PDF refers to printer description files, not the Portable 
Document Format.) Open the Print dialog box, and choose File as 
the destination (E). Make sure Print Colors as Grays is deselected 
(F) or else your colors won't print. Then click on Save. 




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QuarkXPress 4.0 Open the Print dialog box. Click on the 
Setup tab (A), and make sure the Distiller PPD Is selected for Print- 
er Description (B). Click on the Output tab (C). Print Colors 
should be set to Composite Color (D), and Halftoning should be 
set to Printer (E). Click on the Printer button (F) at the bottom of 
the screen. This brings up the Virtual Printer dialog box (not 
shown). Choose File as the destination, and click on Save. 






O In both versions of XPress, clicking on Save brings up a dia- 
log box for saving the PostScript file to disk. Name the file; choose 
PostScript Job as the format and PostScript Level 2 Only for 
compatibility. In the Font Embedding pop-up, you should gener- 
ally select All to ensure that all fonts in the document are embed- 
ded in the file. The All but Standard 13 and All but Standard 35 



options will also work and produce a smaller PostScript file. But 
If your document Includes one of the standard 13 or 35 fonts 
and those fonts are not available at your service bureau (an 
admittedly unlikely occurrence), these options will cause a font- 
substitution error. Choosing Binary as the data format makes for 
smaller files. 



102 June 1998 /MACWORLD 





Part 2: Create a PDF File from Distiller 



create 

PRINT 



O From the Finder, open the Acrobat 3.0 folder and locate the 
Xtras folder. Inside you'll find a folder called High_end. Open 
that folder, and drag the Prologue.ps and Epilogue.ps files Into 



the folder in which the Distiller application resides. (Note; Acro- 
bat retains job settings. After you follow these instructions once, 
you can go directly to step 3 to create subsequent print PDFs.) 



Q Open Distiller, go to the Distiller menu, and select Job Options. 
A dialog box with four tabs appears. Each tab of the dialog box 
contains several settings. Knowing which boxes to check Is 
essential to getting a PDF that's suitable for production printing. 

General 

A. Select Acrobat 3.0 compatibility. Acrobat 2.1 lacks the pre- 
press features of version 3.0. 

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Font Embedding 

A. Select the Embed All Fonts option to store all fonts used in 
the document within the PDF file. 

B. Select the Subset Fonts Below option to save file space by lim- 
iting the number of whole fonts Distiller embeds. Under the 
default. If less than 35 percent of the characters are In Bembo, for 
example. Distiller embeds just the subset of Bembo characters actu- 
ally used. If more than 35 percent of the characters are in Bembo, 
Distiller embeds the entire font. Note: Subsetting fonts may limit 
your service bureau's ability to edit your file. 




Compression 

A. Select Compress Text and Line Art. 

B. Deselect all downsampling and JPEG compression options, 
unless you want the images in your document to be converted 
to JPEG (generally not a good idea for prepress production). 

C. Select Zip Manual Compression of color and gray-scale 
images. 

These compression settings reduce the file size without affecting 
image quality. 



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Advanced 

A. Select the Distill with prologue. ps/epilogue.ps option to force 
Distiller to include both files in the PDF file. (If the PDF doesn’t 
Include those files. Distiller may sometimes convert spot colors in 
QuarkXPress files to their process-color equivalents.) 

B. Deselect the Convert CMYK Images to RGB option. 

C. Select Preserve OPI Comments, Preserve Overprint settings. 
Preserve Halftone Screen Information, Preserve Transfer Func- 
tions, and Preserve Under Color Removal/Black Generation. 
These settings let you retain the prepress options you selected in 
the original QuarkXPress document. 

D. Set Color Conversion to Unchanged or Device Independent. 
Either option will preserve standard color spaces specified In your 
QuarkXPress document. 



A 

B 



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I Preserue I Under Color Aemoual / Black Generation 

rColor Conuersion: 

<i) Unchanged 

O Oeuice Independent (More Accurate) 

O Oeuice Oependent (Faster Display) 






O Now you're ready to convert the PostScript file to PDF. From 
Distiller's File menu, open the PostScript print file you just creat- 
ed. You will then be prompted to enter a file name for the PDF 
file; the default appends a .pdf extension to the original file 
name. Click on Save, and Distiller goes to work. 



O After Distiller saves the file, you should open it in Acrobat 
Viewer to make sure it was processed correctly, m 

Senior Editor/News ST'EPHEN BEALE covers prepress and graphics for 
Macworld. 



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The Power of ColorSync Color Matching 

Tap Into the Part of Your System Software That's Made for Matching Colors 

by Bruce Fraser 



S o what is this ColorSync thing 
anyu^ay? If youVe done some 
studying, you may know that 
it has to do with matching 
colors between different 
devices — scanners, monitors, 
and printers. In fact, it’s Apple’s 
system-level color-management scheme. 
Unfortunately, making it work isn’t as easy 
as it might seem. The old joke “It’s sup- 
posed to be automatic, but really you have 
to press this button” applies to using 
ColorSync, although with ColorSync you 
have to press a bunch of buttons in the 
right order at the right time. This article 
looks at some possible ways to use Color- 
Sync, and points out pitfalls to be aware of 

ColorSync Basics 

It’s a thorny problem to keep colors con- 
sistent across the various devices we work 
with because computers know nothing 
about color — they just juggle Is and Os. 
The numbers we think of as representing 
colors actually represent the varying 
amounts of colorants — red, green, and 
blue light; or cyan, magenta, yellow, and 
black dyes or pigments — that monitors 
and printers use to produce color. RGB 
and CMYK values are just recipes for 
color, and different cooks can make a 
dish turn out differently even when they 
use the same recipe. 

Monitor phosphors and scanner fil- 
ters vary from vendor to vendor. CMYK 
inks and dyes vary, too, and the paper on 
which we print them has a huge influence 
on the color. RGB and CMYK colors are 
ambiguous — they produce different col- 
ors on different devices. 

ColorSync helps provide consistent 
color by changing the RGB and Cx\mC 
values we send to different devices. To do 
this, we have to tell it which device the 
color came from and which device it’s 
going to, by choosing ColorSync profiles. 
These are files that describe the color 
behavior of a scanner, monitor, or print- 
er. You’ll find examples in the System 
Folder in a folder called ColorSync Pro- 



files (in versions prior to 2.5 it’s further 
nested inside the Preferences folder). 

One of the first steps in making col- 
ors match using ColorS}oic is to choose a 
source profile for the device that has the 
color you want to match and a target pro- 
file for the device you want to match it 
on. For instance, if you want to match 
the color from a scanned image to the 
image on your monitor, you’d choose 
your scanner as tlie source and your 
monitor as the target. (For advice on 
when it’s worthwhile to create custom 
profiles, see “Canned versus Custom 
Profiles” at w'vvw.macw- orld.com/more/.) 

In practice, how you set profiles 
varies from application to application. 
Here I look at how to use ColorSync 
with Adobe Photoshop 3 or later and 
QuarkXPress 4.0. (For some other pro- 
grams, you can set up color matching by 
using ColorS}mc and the LaserWriter 
printer driver. For instructions on this 
process, see the sidebar “WTat Apple 
Doesn’t Tell You about LaserWriter.”) 

ColorSync and QuarkXPress 

QuarkXPress 4.0 offers limited Color- 
Sync support. It applies ColorSync only 



to placed TIFFs and to XPress-created 
colors, it ignores embedded profiles, and 
it doesn’t let you choose a rendering 
intent (see the sidebar “Dealing with 
Out-of-Gamut Colors”). Nevertheless, 
there are some useful things you can do 
in XPress 4.0 with ColorSync. 

Basic Configuration XPress 4.0’s 
Color Management Preferences lets 
you set profiles for your monitor, your 
composite printer, and your final separa- 
tions. It also lets you set default source 
profiles for RGB, CMYK, and Hexa- 
chrome for both images and XPress- 
created colors. 

C/WYK Workflow In a CMYK work- 
flow, you place CMYK images just as you 
would without color management, but 
you can use ColorSync to provide both 
soft proofs on screen and hard-copy 
proofs from a color printer. Set the same 
profile as the default CMYK source pro- 
file and the Separations Printer profile. 
That way, ColorSync doesn’t touch your 
final separations, but it provides accurate 
color on screen and to your color printer. 

RGB Workflow In an RGB work- 
flow, you place RGB TIFFs, which 

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What Apple Doesn’t Tell You about LaserWriter 



USING COLORSYNC WITH THE LASERWRIT- 
er driver is a fairly simple process. How- 
ever, there are some large (and largely 

undocumented) limitations: this kind 
of color matching works with only RGB 
PICT images, and only with applications 
that don't create their own PostScript. So, 

LaserWriter Dialog Box 




■When you choose ColorSync Color Match- 
ing from the Print Color pop-up, you gain 
access to menus for rendering intent and 
printer profile. 



ColorSync converts at print time to final 
CMYK. Set your scanner profile as the 
RGB source profile if you’re placing raw 
RGB scans. Set your monitor profile as 
the RGB source profile if you’re placing 
images you’ve corrected on the monitor. 

The advantages of an RGB workflow 
are that RGB files are smaller than their 
CMYK equivalents, so processes go a 
little more quickly, and your documents 
can be easily repurposed — to target a dif- 
ferent kind of output, you only have to 
change the Separations Printer profile. 
The disadvantage is that you don’t see 
your separations until you actually pro- 
duce final output, so test before imple- 
menting an RGB workflow on a live job. 

Printing Composite Proofs In an 
RGB workflow, make sure that you check 
Composite Simulates Separation in the 
Profiles panel of the Print dialog box. 
Otherwise, ColorSync will render your 
RGB files faithfully on your composite 
printer, which may do a considerably bet- 
ter job than the press. In a CiVIYK work- 
flow, the composite printer simulates the 
Separations Printer automatically because 
you’re feeding it CMYK separations 
tagged for the Separations Printer. 

If you’re serious about implementing 
ColorSync in QuarkXPress, you may 

106 June 1 998 MACWORLD 



It's OK for printing from general office 
applications (such as Microsoft Word, 
Excel, and PowerPoint), but It doesn't 
work with most graphics applications 
(such as Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia 
Freehand, and QuarkXPress). For those 
applications, you have to implement 
ColorSync in the application Itself. 

If you are working with programs 
that don't create their own PostScript, 
here's how to set up ColorSync with 
LaserWriter 8.5.1 to match printed Post- 
Script output to a monitor: Your first 
setup task is to choose the correct moni- 
tor profile (the source profile) in the 
ColorSync control panel. Once you do 
that, choose the profile for the printer 
you're printing to — choose print from 
your application, and then choose Color 
Matching from the pop-up menu in the 
LaserWriter dialog box that appears. In 
the Color Matching panel, choose Color- 
Sync Color Matching from the Print Color 
pop-up menu. Finally, choose the profile 
for the printer you're printing to from the 
Printer Profile pop-up menu. 



want to invest in Praxisoft’s CompassPro 
XT e.xtension ($399; 703/450-8001, www 
.praxisoft.com), which greatly extends 
the support for ColorSync. It not only 
manages TIFFs and XPress-generated 
elements, but also manages placed EPS 
files, both vector and bitmap. 

ColorSync and Photoshop 

Photoshop has limited ColorSync sup- 
port, but you can gready extend Color- 
Sync’s functionality in Photoshop 4.0.1 

Soft-Proof Colors in QuarkXPress 



by downloading a free set of ColorSjmc 
plug-ins (ColorS)mc Import, ColorSync 
Export, and ColorSync Filter) from 
Apple’s ColorSync Web site, www 
.colorsync.com. Although Photoshop 
picks up the monitor profile from the 
ColorSync System Profile, you need the 
plug-ins to actually change the color. 
Here are suggestions on how to use the 
first two plug-ins, which will probably be 
the most useful of the three plug-ins. 

The ColorSync Import Plug-In This 
plug-in lets you open images and perform 
a color transformation on the fly. To use 
it, choose Import TIFF With ColorSync 
Profile from Photoshop’s File menu. 
Then choose a file to open, and the Color- 
Sync Import plug-in appears. It has three 
panels, labeled Open, Match, and Proof. 
Here I concentrate on the Match panel 
(see “Calibrated Scaiming in Photoshop”). 

You can choose a source and output 
profile, and select a quality setting and 
matching style for the transformation. For 
images, for Quality select Best, and for 
Matching Style select Perceptual unless 
you have specific reasons to do otherwise 
(see the sidebar “Dealing with Out-of- 
Gamut Colors”). 

The ColorSync Export Plug-In This 
plug-in lets you export TIFF images with 
an embedded ColorSync profile, and per- 
form color transformations between two 
or more devices. 

Caution: It’s easy to accidentally delete 
a file when using this plug-in. Wlien 
you’re prompted to save the exported 
TIFF from this plug-in, the default file 
name in the Save dialog box is that of your 
original RGB image. If you click on Save 
without renaming the file, your original 
RGB image will be 
overwTitten. 

Evihedding Pro- 
files Embedding 
a profile turns an 
uncalibrated RGB 
or CMYK image 
into a calibrated 
one. That’s be- 
cause the profile 
contains an unam- 
biguous definition 
of the colors that 
the RGB or CMYK 
values produce. 

In order to 
embed a profile, 
choose Export: 
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Calibrated Scanning in Photoshop 




For Images scanned on a calibrated scanner, set the scanner pro- 
file as the source profile and your monitor's profile as the out- 
put profile to match the colors of the original on your display. 



Embedding Profiles in Your Image 




Choose the 
profile you wish 
to embed. 



Click here to 
name and save 
the exported file. 



Sync Profile from Photoshop’s File menu; 
the ColorSync Export Module screen 
appears. Then use a setup like the one in 
“Embedding Profiles in Your Image.” 

For RGB images, a good rule of 
thumb is to embed either your scanner 
profile (for an unedited scan) or your 
monitor profile (for an image you’ve 
edited on screen). For CMYK images, 
embed the CMYK profile you use to cre- 
ate the CMYK file. 

Creating Color Separations To export 
a CMYK TIFF from an RGB image, 
bring up the ColorSync Export Module 
screen (as in “Embedding Profiles in Your 
Image”). Then use a setup like the one in 
“Convert RGB to CiVIYK for Print.” 
Proofing Separations To proof color 
separations on a desktop color printer, 
you need to specify three profiles: one for 
the source, one for the final output, and 
one for the desktop printer. Bring up the 
ColorSync Export screen and click on the 
Proof tab. Under Source Profile, choose 
your scanner or monitor profile, and set 



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the corresponding 
Matching Style to 
Perceptual. Under 
Output Profile 
choose the final 
output device, and 
set the correspond- 
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to Relative Col- 
orimetric. Under 
Proofer Profile, 
choose the desktop 
printer profile. Set 
Quality to Best. 

Click on Export 
Tiff, and then 
name and save the 
exported file. 

Note that this 

file is color-matched to simulate your final 
output on the desktop printer — it’s good 
for printing to your desktop printer only. 

Viewing ColorSync-Generated Separa- 
tions in Photoshop To view ColorSync- 
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Dealing with Out-of-Gamut Colors 



ALL DEVICES AREN'T EQUAL WHEN IT COMES 
to the range of colors— the color gamut— 
they can reproduce. ColorSync gives you 
four different options, called rendering 
intents or matching styles, for handling out- 
of-gamut colors. 

Perceptual rendering intent is the best 
choice for printing RGB Images to CMY or 
CMYK printers. It compresses the source 
gamut into the target gamut while maintain- 
ing the image's overall appearance, although 
It may change all the colors in the process. 

Absolute colorimetric rendering intent 
matches the colors common to both devices 



exactly, and clips the out-of-gamut colors to 
the nearest printable equivalent. It's best for 
flat tints and solid colors. 

Relative colorimetric rendering intent Is 
like absolute, except that it scales the source 
white to the output (usually paper) white. 
It's good for proofing CMYK Images on a 
desktop color printer, which typically has a 
larger gamut than the printing press you're 
making it simulate. 

Saturation rendering intent maps fully 
saturated source colors to fully saturated 
target colors. It's useful only for charts and 
graphs where you just want bright colors. 



shop, build a Photoshop Separation 
Table from the profile used to create the 
color separations. Choose Color Set- 
tings: Separation Tables from Photo- 
shop’s File menu. The Separation Tables 
dialog box appears. Click on Build Tables 
Using Apple ColorSync. The CMS Set- 
tings dialog box appears. Under Profile, 
choose the output profile you used to 
create the CMYK file, set the Render 
Intent to Relative Colorimetric, and then 
click on Build. 

Photoshop builds a separation table 
from the ColorSync profile. You can use 
separation tables created this way to per- 
form RGB-to-CMYK conversions in 
Photoshop, but the results are often quite 
different from the ColorSync conver- 
sions. I recommend that you use these 
tables only to view CiVIYK files, not to 
create them, m 

BRUCE FRASER is coauthor of Real World 
Photoshop (Peachpit Press, 1997). You can reach him 
at bnice@pixelboyz.com. 



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Make FileMaker Work the Web 

Putting a Searchable Database Online 

by Jason Snell 



W hen it comes to being 
Web-sawy, FileMaker 
4.0 is an impressive data- 
base program. Using its 
custom Web publishing 
features, you c*an turn the 
data you’ve got languish- 
ing in a FileMaker database into a profes- 
sional-quality Web site — all from within 
FileMaker — without investing thousands 
of dollars in high-end database servers. 

There’s just one catch. The good 
folks at FileMaker, Inc., have essentially 
kept these features a secret: they’re not 
explained in FileMaker’s printed manual 
and are e.xplained only in a couple of ref- 



erence files on the FileMaker CD-ROM. 

There is one other way to learn to 
use the hidden power of FileMaker as a 
Web publisher: follow the steps in this 
article. As long as you know your way 
around FileMaker and understand 
HTML, you can apply these techniques 
to your own FileMaker projects. 

In my example, I create a Web inter- 
face for a FileMaker database containing 
the contents of a fictitious toy company’s 
product catalog. I want to let users search 
for items in the catalog (Step 1), see die list 
of items their searches turn up (Step 2), and 
then see detailed information about indi- 
\idual items (Step 3). If you’d like to use 



the actual files from this example project as 
a basis for your own projects, you can get 
them from www.macworld.com/more/. 

Another good resource to turn to for 
more help on creating Web sites in File- 
Maker is Blue World Communications’ 
Lasso — the software on which FileMaker 
4.0’s custom Web publishing features are 
based. Although Lasso’s tags are a litde 
different from FileMaker’s, they’re so 
closely related that Lasso’s documenta- 
tion (available free online in PDF format 
at www.blueworld.com) is the best refer- 
ence on the subject, m 



JASON SNELL is a Macworld features editor. 



Step 1 : A Search Query 






Since you'll want people to be able to search and sort the contents 
of databases you put on the Web, creating a search form is the 
best place to start. In my toy company-database example, the 
search form lets users send Information to FileMaker that will tell 
the program what to search for and how to display it. 

You can create a search form entirely in HTML or In a graphi- 
cal Web-page editor. The only tricky part is giving your form ele- 
ments the right names so that FileMaker knows what they repre- 
sent. Here's how to do it — "Search Form (Close-up)" shows the 
form elements In context. 

Action The first part of any form 
you create should be the action vari- 
able. The information In your action 
variable tells your database what URL 
to send data to when a user performs 
a search. Set the action of any form 
that queries FileMaker 4.0 to the name 
of the FileMaker 4.0 server, followed 
by /FMPro — for example, http:// 
filemaker.outerspacetoy.com/FMPro. 

Method In addition to an action 
variable, each form needs a method 
variable. This should be set to either get 
or post While you're debugging your 
forms, be sure to use get If you do so, 
all the form data used in a search form 
is appended to the action's URL — In my 

example, it shows up in the Search Results Form (Browser) shown in 
Step 2 — after you perform a search. This is useful for testing purposes, 
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Hidden Fields 


Form Field 


Sample Value 


What It Is 


-db 


My Database 


name of your database 


-lay 


Big Layout 


layout with all fields you'll use 


-format 


/catalog/resulthtml 


file name of HTML results template 


-noresults 


/catalog/error.html 


file a user sees if a search fails 


-sortfield 


product name 


neune of field for sorting 


-sortorder 


descending 


whether to sort In ascending or 
descending order 


-lop 


or 


logical operator for searching on 
more than one field; can be an 
and or an or search 


field to search 


search value 


what you're searching for 


-find 


none 


last tag on your form; tells 
FileMaker a user is doing a search 



Control what your visitors see by using hidden fields for your Web-search 
form. This table contains the hidden fields I used for my sample database; 
they should be useful for your own databases. For details on using them, see 
the main text in Step 1. 

because all you have to do to find out what your form is sending (and 
what it isn't) is look in the URL window. On the other hand, it's usual- 
ly best to set the method variable of your finished forms to post since 
that hides the clutter of form data from your users. 

Hidden Fields Within your search form, you need several hid- 
den fields — fields that aren't visible on a Web page but that the 
browser still passes to the Web server when a user submits a form 
(in this case, when the user performs a search). Users enter some of 
the data needed to perform a search via visible fields, but hidden 
fields let you hard-code unchanging data elements, such as the 
name of the database being searched. 

For a list of hidden fields and what they do, see "Hidden Fields. " 
In addition, here are some important tips to keep in mind when 



you're setting up specific kinds of hidden fields. 

The -lay field must specify a layout containing all the fields 
your database will search on or return to the user. For debugging 
purposes, you can simply create a layout containing every field In 
your database — but be sure to create a slimmed-down version of 
that layout before it goes live. The more fields in a layout, the slow- 
er a Web application runs. 

Set the -format field to the file name of the template you want 
to use to display the results of a search. You also need to indicate 
the location in the Web folder (which Is In the same folder as the 
FileMaker application) that contains the template. In my example, 
I set -format to /catalog/results. html — In other words, a template 
file named results.html, located in a folder named catalog in the 
Web folder, which is in the FileMaker folder. 

The last hidden field in your form should always be the action 
you want FileMaker to perform, such as doing a search, showing ail 
FileMaker records, or even (in an advanced application) adding or 
deleting records. In most cases, the action will be -find — although 
if you wanted to display every record In your database, you would 
Instead use -findall. 

User-Entered Values The rest of the search form contains 
information users enter themselves, such as the name of the 
product they're searching for. You can have your users enter data 
via text fields, pop-up menus, or radio buttons. If you prefer, 
you can limit a user's options by placing some of the search val- 
ues in hidden fields. 

In my example, I'm allowing users to search three fields; prod- 
uct name, price, and category. In the search form in Bare Bones Soft- 
ware's BBEdit, I created a text-entry field set to the name product. 
This creates a box In my browser search form In which users can 
enter the name of the product they want to search for. I've also 
created two pop-up menus (shown In the "Search Form" figures) 
that allow a search based on a product's price or category. 

I hard-coded the rest of the items into the search form as 
hidden text: -sortfield defines what FileMaker field to sort the 
results by, and -sortorder defines whether that sort will be 
ascending or descending. 



step 2: The Results Page 



Now It's time to create the page users will receive when searches 
are complete. Although this is an HTML page and can be designed 
in any Web authoring tool, you need more than just a knowledge 
of HTML to create it — you also need some new vocabulary. 

FileMaker's Own HTML To make Web browsers speak a 
language FileMaker can understand, you need to use tags from 
FDML (FileMaker Dynamic Mark-up Language). These FileMaker- 
specific tags act as placeholders for Information from your File- 
Maker database. This information gets Inserted right into an HTML 
file that's sent from your server to someone browsing your Web 
site. By using FDML to create templates, you can quickly create 
preformatted Web pages for every record in your database. 

It's easy to tell FDML tags from their HTML cousins: whereas 
HTML tags are surrounded by angle brackets, as In <b>, FDML tags 
are surrounded by square brackets and are preceded by FMP, as in 
[FMP-file] — see the figure "Search Results Form (HTML)." 

To add FDML tags to your HTML documents, use a text editor 
(or the FDML-savvy Claris Home Page 3.0). 

continues 




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Start with HT/\AL I want the search -results page to show 
users every record FileMaker found during their search. The first 
step in creating this page is to make a normal HTML page with a 
header, a footer, and a table containing a generic version of the 
data. I temporarily inserted text such as "the product name" into 
my HTML document: later I'll replace this with FDML tags. 

Add FDML for Repeating Records The first FDML tag I 
employed was one that makes each found product appear in Its 
own row. I created the table using 
normal HTML — as seen in "Search 
Results Form (HTML)" — and then 
placed the [FMP-record] tag around 
the middle row, the one contain- 
ing product Information. Now File- 
Maker will add one row to the table 
for every record it finds. 

Replace Text with Data The 
next step is to replace the generic 
text in the record row with data 
from the database. To do this, I 
replaced generic text, such as "the product name," with an FDML 
tag pointing to a field In my database, such as the product field 
[FMP-field: product]. Likewise, to have the contents of the price 
field inserted during a search, I simply put [FMP-field: price] in the 
cell that's supposed to list the product's price. 

Use Logic A more difficult concept is the addition of logical 
statements to template files. Again, you can do this by using an 
FDML tag — [FMP-if]— which tells FileMaker to insert certain data 
based on the contents of a field. I used this tag to get a "New!" 
graphic to appear on some but not all items, as shown In the figure 
"Search Results Form (Browser)." In my example, the statement 
[FMP-if: field: new .eq. new]<IMG SRC='7catalog/new.gif>[/FMP-ifI 
tells FileMaker that if the field named new contains the word new, 




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then the program should insert a GIF image that says "New!" 

Make a Link I want to let my users click on any toy's name 
on the search-results page and receive a detailed view of informa- 
tion about that toy. That means I have to make a hyperlink to the 
FileMaker record for that specific toy — but exactly what URL am I 
supposed to hyperlink to? FDML makes linking easy by automati- 
cally creating database- related hyperlinks via the [FMP-linkrecId] 
tag. The code for the hyperlink in my example reads <a href="[FMP- 
linkrecid: layout=detail,format=/catalog/detail.html]''> — generating 
a link that tells FileMaker to continue using the fields in the detail 
layout (one of the layouts in my FileMaker database), but to use 
the file catalog/detail. html as the template for the next page (a 
template I create in Step 3). 



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Step 3: The Detail Page 

The last page on my site is detall.html, 
a page that shows a bunch of infor- 
mation — such as product description, 
price, and manufacturer — from a par- 
ticular record in FileMaker. Users go 
to this page by clicking on one of the 
product names on the Search Results 
Form. The detail page is essentially a 
template for displaying any record 
from my database. 

Since this page (see "Detail 
Form") displays only one record at a 
time, it doesn't need the [FMP-record] 
tag. Instead, I designed the page In a 
standard HTML-editing program and 
then brought it into a text editor to 
replace all the placeholder text with 
the live contents of my database via 
the [FMP-field] tag. 



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Phone 


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Ns. 


Advertiser 


Phone 1 


55 


3COM 


42 


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14 


MetaCreations Corp. 


5 


800/846-0111 










99 


Hitachi NSA 


74 


800/441-4832 


4.5.7 


Microsoft Corporation 


— 


— 


41-48 


Apple Computer 


— 


— 










82 


Microtek Lab, Inc. 


— 


800/654-4160 


108 


AEC Software 


203 





94 


liyama North America 




800/313-4335 


59 


Mitsubishi Electronics 
























America. Inc. 


261 


800/843-2515 


56 


Agio Designs 


— 


800/688>2446 


53 


Infowave 


32 


800/564-0644 










135 


Alliance Peripheral Systems 


62 


— 


56 


Interland 


10 


— 


























24 


Newer Technology 


55 


— 


52 


ALSOR 


140 


800/257-6381 


22.23 


Iomega • JAZ 


— 


— 


























11 


NewTek Incorporated 


50 


— 


57 


American Power Conversion 


72 


888/289-APCC 


















8 


Anthro 




800/325-3841 


132 


J6R Computerworld 


282 


800/221-8180 


























10 


Orange Micro 


33 


714/779-2772 


51 


ATI Technologies, Inc. 


256 


— 


























BC 


Kensington 




800/535-4242 


























117 


ProDirect 


135 


800/524-9952 


134 


Bottom Line Distribution 


221 


— 


9 


Kingston 


201 


800/435-0677 


























19 


Ricoh 


4 


— 


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ClubMac 


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133 


LA. Trade 


— 


800/433-3726 










118 


Computer Discount 






IFC.1 


LaCie 


52 


— 


127 


The LLB Company 


220 


800/848-8967 




Warehouse 


2 800/861-4CDW 


































124,125 


The Mac Zone 


71 


800/436-0606 










122.123 


MacConnection 


145 


800/800-3333 










6 


Dantz Development 


26 


800/225-4880 


























120.121 


MacMall/ Creative 






12,13 


ViewSonic 


59 


800/888-8583 


17 


Deneba Software 


57 


800/733-6322 




Computers 


131 


800/222-2808 


























18 


VST Technologies, Inc. 


74 


508/263-9700 


20 


Diehl Graphsoft 


46 


410/290-5114 


67 


MacSoft 


30 


— 










119 


Digital Graphix 


36 


800/680-9062 


69 


MacSoft 


23 


— 


























29 


Whistle Communications 


84 


888/4whistle 










71 


MacSoft 


29 


— 










IBC 


Extensis 


14 


800/796-9798 


130.131 


MacWarehouse 


150 


800/434-3035 










37 


Epson America. Inc. 


14 80Q/BUYEPSON 


86-91 


Macworld Expo 


— 


80Q/645-EXPO 










92.93 


GCC 


43 





126 


MegaHaus 


229 


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SOFTWARE 




24 


Newer Technology 


55 


INPUT DEVICES 






FURNITURE 






BUSINESS 






10 


Orange Micro 


33 


BC 


Kensington 


— 


56 




Agio Designs 


— 


108 


AEC Software 


203 








MISCELLANEOUS 




8 




Anthro 










COMPUTER SYSTEMS 


















4,5.7 


Microsoft Corporation 


— 








57 


American Power 
Conversion 


72 


MAIL ORDER 




CAD/CAM 






41-48 


Apple Computer 




19 




134 


Bottom Line Distribution 


221 


Ricoh 




4 








135 


Alliance Peripheral 


















20 


Diehl Graphsoft 


46 




Systems 


62 


29 


Whistle Communications 


84 




128,129 


ClubMac 


96 








128,129 


Club Mac 


96 
















ENTERTAINMENT 










MODEMS 








118 


Computer Discount 
























Warehouse 


2 


67 


MacSoft 


30 


119 


Digital Graphix 


36 


55 


3COM 


42 




119 


Digital Graphix 


36 


69 


MacSoft 


23 


DIGITIZERS/SCANNERS 
















71 


MacSoft 


29 


82 


Microtek Lab, Inc. 


— 


MONITORS 








132 


J8R Computerworld 


282 








DISPLAY 






IFC.1 


La Cie Limited, Inc. 


52 




133 


LA. Trade 


— 


GRAPHICS/DTP 






59 


Hitachi NSA 


74 


NETWORKING 








122,123 


MacConnection 


145 


17 


Deneba Software 


57 


44 


liyama North America 


39 










130,131 


MacWarehouse 


150 


IBC 


Extensis 


14 


59 


Mitsubishi Electronics 




29 


Whistle Communications 


84 




126 


MegaHuas 


129 


53 


Infowave 


32 




America. Inc. 


261 














14 


MetaCreations Corp. 


5 


12,13 


ViewSonic 


59 


POWERBOOK 








117 


ProDirect 


135 














18 


VST Technologies. Inc. 


74 




127 


The LLB Company 


220 


MULTIMEDIA 






EXPANSIONS/UPGRADES 






























PRINTERS 








124,125 


The Mac Zone 


70 








123 


LA. Trade 


— 


92,93 


GCC 


43 










11 


NewTek Incorporated 


14 


HARD DISKS/STORAGE 










SERVICES 




UTILITIES 




134 


Bottom Line Dist. 


221 


19 


Ricoh 


4 






















TRADESHOWS/CONFERENCES 
















STORAGE 














52 


ALSOFT 


140 


108 


AEC Software 


203 


IFC.1 


La Cie Limited, Inc. 


52 




86-91 


Macworld Expo 




6 


Dantz Development 


26 








22,23 


Iomega- Jaz 




ONLILNE 












130.131ClubMac 96 


















53 


Infowave 


32 


22,23 


Iomega - JAZ 




SECURITY 








54 


Interland 


10 














57 


American Power 












HARDWARE 




9 


Kingston 


201 




Conversion 


72 










BOARDS 






IFC.1 


LaCie 


52 
















51 


ATI Technologies, Inc. 


256 


117 


Pro Direct 


135 


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FB32100S 


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Syr 


$249 


$299 


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FB33200S 


3>t 


$235 


$289 


4310MB 


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S12K 


FB34300S 


3yr 


$275 


$325 


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7200rpm 


512K 


VK34S50S 


Syr 


$345 


$395 


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S12K 


XP34SS0S 


Syr 


$439 


$499 


6448MB 


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FB36400S 


3yr 


$353 


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FB38400S 


3>t 


$449 


$499 


9100MB 


7200 rpm 


S12K 


XP39100S 


Syr 


$709 


$759 


9100MB 


7200rpm 


1024K 


XP309100S 


Syr 


$799 


$849 


18200MB 7200rpm 


1024K 


XP318200S 


Syr 


$1299 $1349 


ULTRA WIDE SCSI 


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227SMB 


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512K 


VK32275W 5yr 


$249 


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XP3227SW 


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$199 


$289 


4SS0MB 


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VK34SS0W Syr 


$345 


$435 


4S50MB 


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512K 


XP34SS0W Syr 


$445 


$535 


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512K 


VK3MS50PSW Syr 


$439 


$529 


9100MB 


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XP39100W Syr 


$749 


$839 


9100MB 


7200rpm 


512K 


VK309100SW Syr 


$679 


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$439 


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4550MB 10,000rpm 512K ST34S01N 5yr $579 $629 

9100MB 7200rpm 512K ST19171N 5}T $739 $789 

9100.MB 10,000rpm 512K ST19101N 5yr $929 $979 

23200MB 5400rpm 512K ST423451N Syr $1649 $1739 

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I 2150MB 7200rpm 512K ST32272W 5yr $359 $449 

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HP 4mm 12-24GB 120MB/min C15S4.XM $1139 
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WACOM 

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4400/200 16/20«xCD/KB. 
A400/200 32/208/12/008 COMP. 
6500/225 32/30/1 2xA1ome 
6500/250 32'4GB/C0/S6K 
6500/300 64/6G/CO/Zip 
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899* 

1199 520c 4/240 
899* 520 4/240 
999* DUO250* 12/200/Moderr 
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569. 

649. 

979 

1249. 

999. 

1099. 

2099. 



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6400/200* 16/2.4G/8C0/VE 
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6200/75* a/1.2G'4xC0 
5400/120* 16/1.6/8xC0/1S*tXiilt 
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LC580 B'SOO 

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Powerbook Baneries for 1400.5300,190 
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3400 Mob«y Bunde (Charger. AC & Ban) 
3400 Apple l>lon Battery 
Auto Adapter (or 3400,1400 & 03 
Power Adapter 3400,5300,63 &190 
Charger 3400,5300,33 & 190 
Apple AC Adapter 3400 & 1 400 




Ultimate Heat 

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Seagate ChMuh 9 lOBUkri SCSI AvtooooftPM 1049. 
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289. 

249. 

219. 

329. 

479. 

499. 

779. 

799. 

499. 

599. 

449. 



Printers 




Ibnate Rez SMB 


549 


4MB Twin Turtjo Vdeo Card 


249 


SMB Tan Tuftxj Video Card 


399. 


ProRez SUB 


299 


Mac Rocket w.’4M3SGRAM 


2G9. 


Turbo TV 


89 



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Modems 

GV56K Teleport Flex 
GV56K Teleport X2 
GV56K PCMCIA 
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QV 192 Mercury PB 500 Senes 
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Sportster 56K 
Sportster 56K PCMCIA 
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HP LaserJet 6LXV6PXI 
HP LaserJet 6MP.5M 
HP LaserJet SSN 
HP LaserJet 4V/4MV 
HP LaserJet 5MX 
HP OfficeJet 59(yi150C Pro 
HP4000N 
HP4000TN 
EPSON 

Epson Stylus Color 600800 
Epson Stylus Color 3000 
Epson St^ Photo 
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249 Post Script for Pro XL 
349 EthertNet for Pro XL 
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269. 

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G3/300MT 128/2-4G/24X/6MCALL 
G3/266MT 128/4G^4X/8MV 3199 
G3/266MT32/6G/24XCD/ZIP 2099 
G3/266DT 32/4G/24XCD/Z1P 1749 
G3/233MT32/4G/24X/MOD 1749 
G3/233DT 32/4G/24XCD 1499 

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G3/250MZ 

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32/5G/20CD/ETH4199 
32/5G/20CD/MD 4399 



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9600/350 64/4G/24XCD 3099 

9600/300 6^4^4XCD 2699 

9600/200MP3:V4G/CD2099/l 899 " 
9600/233 32/4GIG/CD 1799 

32/4GIG/CD ‘ 

32/4G/24X 
32/4G/24X 



9600/200 

8600/300 

8600/250 

8600/200 

730Q/PEN 

7300/200 

7300/180 

6500/300 

6500/275 

;6500/250 

^6500/225 

14400/200 

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32/2G/24X 
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32/2G1Q/CD 

32/4GI6/CD 

16/2GIQ/CD 

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32/4G/24)W 

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2099 
1899 
1799 
1699 
1399* 
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3400C/240 
3400C/200 
3400C/200 

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3400C/180 16/1.3G 
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1400C/166 16/2G/CD 
1400CS/16616/2G/CD 
1400C/133 16/lG/CD 
1400CS/13316/1G/CD 
5300C/100 8^50 
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16/3G/12XCD/M3199 
16/3G/12XCD 3099 

16/2G/12XCD/M 2899 
16/2G/12XCD 2699 

16/i3g/12XCD 2499 

2399 

1799 
1699 
1499 
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Sladaprec S^Seagate 

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475 

295 

395 

595 

795 



Cheetah 4.3G SCSI 
Cheetah 9.1 G SCSI 
Banracuda2.2G SCI. 
Banracuda4.5G SCSI 
Barracuda^lG SCSI 
Elite 23G SCSI/Wide 



We 549/649 
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We749/749 
1699/1799 



Atlasll 2.2G SCSI 
Atlasll 4.5G SCSI 
Atlasll 9.1 G SCSI 
Stratus 3.2G/4.3L 
Stratus 6.4(^.4G 
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225/225 

479/499 

649/749 

225/279 

349/449 

79 



VISTA Astra 61 0-LE 149 

VISTA Astra 1200-LE 249 

VISTA Astra 1200-PRO 449 

POWERLOOKIII CALL 

POWERLOOK3000 CALL 

MIRAGE USE W/TRANS CALL 



NEC 



APPLE POWERMAC 1 32MHZ 99 
APPLE POWERMAC 150 MHZ 149 
APPLE POWERMAC 200MHZ 249 
APPLE POWERMAC 233MHZ 349 



P/5 1399 
i6K 999* 
13.6 899* 
■' 899* 



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16/2.4G/CD 
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16/2.4GIMD 
16/1 GIG/CD 
16/1.26/8XCD 



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SW 2200 
SW4100 
SW4500 
SW 6500 
Apple LW 8500 
Apple LW 12/640/PS 
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6400/200V 
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299 

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999 
1199/999* 



Apple LW 

Apple MS 15AV 
Apple 1705 17- 
Apple 720 17" 

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Ap&e750AV 
Apple Muttiscan 850 20- 
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1 849 9650/233 
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 
349 ADOBE PREMIER. 



479 

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679 

779 

1399 

1699 



SONY 



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pony200PS 17“ 789 

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SONY300SF20" 1089 

S0NY20SEII 1649 

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1400 Charger w/ Apple Ada 
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Adapters for 3400/5300/1 90/G3 
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199 

179 

179 

179 

249 

639 



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Global Village Gold II PCM 14.4 49 
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PHASER 300X CAa 

PHASER 350 COLOR LASER CAa 
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PHASER 450 CAa 

PHASER 480X 14495 



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NEC M500 15" 
NEC M700 17- 
NEC P750 17” 
NEC E700 
NEC El 100 21" 
NEC P1 150 21“ 



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199 

349 

499 

749 

1249 

CAa 



WACOM 



ARTZ 114X5 
ARTZ 116X8 
ARTZ II 12X12 
ARTZ II 12X18 



139 

289 

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Q51/Q53 15" 
15GA 
E655/E641 
Q71 
EA771 
G771/G773 
GT775/G790 
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549/! 



229/249 
289 
249/179 
379 
399 
449/479 
579/779 
649/579 
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OPTIQUESTQIOO 
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979/1099 
1249/1249 
1699 
489/439/239 
489 
899 



99 Saphir 
Saphir Ultra 
Opal 

Opal Ultra 



5000N 
4000TN 
4000N 
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6MP 
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1449 

1349 

1299/1399 

549* 

839 

2399 



ULTIMATE REZ 8MB 


499 


PR0REZ4MB 


279 


MAC ROCKET 4MB 


239 


TWIN TURBO 8 MEG PCI 


379 


TWIN TURBO 4 MEG PCI 


249 


TWIN TURBO TURBO TV 


89 


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PRESSVIEW 21SR 
PRESSVIEW 17SR 
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Thunder Power 30/1600 
Thunder Power 30/1 920 
Thunder 3D 1600 x1 200 
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V1axPowrG3 266 949 

MaxPowrG3 275 1199 

VlaxPowr Pro G3 275/275 2029 

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^axPowr Citation 233mhz 399 

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1 699 Bootendz 500 with Ethernet 1 39 

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329 

649 

749 

629 

999 

1099 



129 

189 

269/569 

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GCC ELITE XL-608 
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GCC ELITE XL-616 ' 

GCC ELITE XL-808 
GCC ELITE XL-1208 
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79 

189 

329 



439 

1389 

2999 

4499 

6199 



1499 

1299 

1999 

2299 

2799 

3799 



RasterOps 



SUPERSCAN MC-7515 
SUPERSCAN MC-801 
SUPERSCAN MC-801-HR 



549 

829 

1149 

1299 



EPSON 



STYLUS PRO-XL 
STYLUS COLOR 600 
STYLUS COLOR 800 
STYLUS COLOR PHOTO 
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STYLUS COLOR 3000 
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299 

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729 

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7200/120 16/lGB/CD $1050 

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NEC PI 150 21” Color. 
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5260 16/1.2GB/CD 
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$799 

Agfa ePhoto 780 $479 

Kodak DC 120 $695 

HITACHIMPEG $1595 

Olympus DL 600 $1249 

SONY Mavica FD7 $649 



HP LaserJet 4000N 

$1389 

HP LaserJet 5MP $545 

Apple LaserWriter 12/600 $1995 
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EPSON Stylus 600 $259 

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WAS RECENTLY INTRO- 
duced to a user group as “a 
man who’d defend the Mac 
until his dying breath — David 
Pogue!” I smiled as I went 
onstage, but I was quietly hor- 
rified. Was that what I’d 
become — a kneejerk Mac 
defender? At parties, did other 
people see the word fanatic tattooed 
across my forehead? Was I a Mac bigot? 

Most of the world uses Windows. 
Not passionately, but they manage. Fd 
owned a Compaq for years, but it had 
never been my main machine. Maybe Fd 
been too insulated. Maybe it was time to 
give Windows a real chance. 

All I needed to make my Compaq 
ready for prime time was a Zip drive, a 
modem, and a much bigger hard drive. 1 
called a consultant. His advice: toss the 
Compaq. Buying a whole new PC would 
be cheaper than all the upgrades. 

This wasn’t exactly what I wanted to 
hear. But I perked up when he said I could 
get a new Micron Pentium II with 32 
megs of RAM; a 24x CD-ROM; a 56K 
modem; a built-in Zip drive; a 15-inch 
monitor; Alicrosoft Office; free shipping; 
and 24-hour, toll-free help forever. For 
$1,500. Suddenly I understood the appeal 
of Windows machines. 

Setting up a Wintel box, I discovered, 
is just as easy as setting up a Mac — e.xcept 
everything’s slightly clunkier. You can’t 
plug the mouse into the keyboard. There’s 
no built-in speaker. You can’t turn the com- 
puter on and off from the keyboard, and 
you can’t plug the monitor’s power cord 
into an oudet on die CPU. But I couldn’t 
get mad; I was still giddy about the price. 

Things got hairier when I pushed the 
litde CD-ROM-eject button. Machinery 
wheezed, but no tray came out. The 
free-tech-support guy talked me through 
30 minutes of paper-clip straightening, 
system reboots, and DOS mucking. But 
die shy litde tray still wouldn’t slide out. 

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CD dh'ectly into the slot, as with car CD 
players. Micron had switched CD-ROM 
suppliers — without notifying the manual 
writer, the tech-support staff, or me. 

I was beginning to appreciate Apple’s 
quality advantage: it can design both the 
hardware and the software. With a Win- 
tel machine, you get components from 
one company, assembled by another, run- 
ning system software by a third. When 
trouble strikes, nobody is accountable. 

On the other hand, everything people 
say about Windows machines is ti*ue: they 
feel fast, they’re dirt cheap, and there’s 



tofis of software. I actually liked the tool 
bar that lists every window; and the two- 
button mouse; and the feeling, for once, 
that I was running with the herd. 

But after a few days, I began to ache 
for the Mac. Windows 95 gets more 
ornery the more you use it. You can’t boot 
normally from a CD-ROM in times of 
troubleshooting. Despite the potential for 
long file names in Windows 95, most files 
are still named things like 5631_dig.dat 
and Wpxerror.log. And every little glitch 
requires reinstalling drivers for things 
Mac fans never even think about, such 



as the mouse, keyboard, and monitor. 

Worse, when you insert a floppy, CD, 
or Zip, no icon appears on the desktop to 
tell you if the thing’s working right. And 
to eject a disk, you have to push a button 
on the computer — I wince every time, not 
knowing whether the computer is ready 
to eject that disk. 

After two weeks, it finally hit me: I’m 
not a Mac bigot. In fact, I have no partic- 
ular attachment to the Mac at all; if some- 
thing superior comes along, I’m there. 

No, what I am is an elegance bigot. If 
I’m going to sit in front of a piece of 
equipment for hours a day, I want to feel 
the intelligence that went into 
my operating system. I want to 
sense that an English major 
lost sleep over the wording of 
the dialog boxes. I shouldn’t 
have to teach my computer 
what kinds of files it has by 
adding .txt and .psd to their 
names. I don’t want a default 
system font that looks like 
somebody drew it on the bus 
on his way to work. And I want 
my OS components to be rep- 
resented by icons that I can 
move or throw away — not 
lines of code that I must edit 
when troubleshooting. 

Elegance, I’m afraid, was 
not a high priority in Win- 
dows 95. And Windows 98 
doesn’t address tlie fundamental flaws of 
Windows (or PC equipment standards, 
which Microsoft defines). 

Apple has been showing improved 
vital signs in recent months. But if the 
worst should come to pass and we must all 
someday switch to Wintel boxes, I have 
but one plea to Microsoft: when you write 
Windows 2001, get the elegance bug. 
Please — copy the Mac. m 



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